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en(Old) Bayard Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-bayard-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Old Bayard is one of the novel's key characters. The only son of Colonel John Sartoris, he married and had one child, son John, who died in 1901. He became one of the leading citizens in Jefferson, serving as mayor around 1894 and later founding the Merchants and Farmers Bank and serving as its president until being forced to resign because of his age. His attempt to preseve tradition and heritage is exemplified both in his household, by the carriage in which he is driven, as well as at the bank he runs, where he refuses to make loans to people who want to buy an automobile.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1387 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSimon Strotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/simon-strother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An elderly black Servant, father of Elnora and Caspey, and Bayard Sartoris' coachman and butler. The novel's narrator says Simon was three when he watched his grandfather Jobe bury the Sartoris silver, which must have occurred around 1863 when the fall of Vicksburg made Mississippi vulnerable to Union troops. But although he was born a slave, Simon seems to long for the old plantation: in the novel he continues to talk, respectfully, to his former master, Colonel John Sartoris, even though Sartoris has been dead for more than forty years.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1388 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduByron Snopes http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/byron-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Byron is identified as a cousin of Flem Snopes, and like Flem has come to Jefferson from the area around Frenchman's Bend. Both Narcissa Benbow and the narrator note that he has "reddish hair which clothes his arms down the the second joints of his fingers" (101). He writes Narcissa anonymous love letters, spies into her windows at night, and on his last night in Jefferson breaks into her bedroom and lies on her empty bed, "writhing and making smothered, animal-like noises" (276).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1389 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Legendary progenitor of the Sartoris family, and one of the central characters in Yoknapatawpha's history. Born the eldest male in "Carolina," he had a brother, Bayard, and apparently several sisters, the youngest of whom, Virginia Du Pre, came to live with his family in 1869. He arrived in Jefferson around 1837, where he built a large plantation home four miles north of town.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1390 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJenny Du Prehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jenny-du-pre
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The youngest sister of Colonel John and "Carolina" Bayard Sartoris, Jenny married a man named Du Pre, who was killed in the Civil War. In 1869 she made her own way from Carolina to Mississippi to live with her brother's family, bringing with her "a straw-filled hamper" containing pieces of colored glass from the family's ancestral mansion (10) and tales of Sartoris daring. Indomitable and strong-willed, she comes to run the Sartoris household and outlives all of the Sartoris men except for Benbow Sartoris, her great-great-grandnephew.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1391 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Young) Bayard Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/young-bayard-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The twin brother of John Sartoris, III, and son of John and Lucy Cranston Sartoris, and grandson of "Old" Bayard. He attended the University of Virginia and then taught flying in Memphis, where he met and married Caroline White. During World War I he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Europe, where his brother was shot down and killed in July 1918, and whose death he believes is his fault. While he was still overseas, his wife and newborn child, whom she had named "Bayard" months before his birth, died on October 27 that same year.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1392 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Young) John Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/young-john-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The twin brother of Bayard Sartoris, III ("Young Bayard"), son of John and Lucy Cranston Sartoris, and grandson of "Old" Bayard. He attended the University of Virginia and Princeton University before joing the Royal Air Force as an aviator in World War I. He was shot down and killed behind enemy lines in July 1918. According to his grandfather's inscription in the family Bible, he died July 5, 1918, but his tombstone reports his death as July 19, 1918.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1393 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBelle Mitchell http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/belle-mitchell
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Harry Mitchell and Horace Benbow's lover at the start the novel, she is Mrs. Benbow at the end. With Harry she has a daughter, Little Belle. Her hair is described as a "rich bloody auburn" (199), and her personality in equally vivid if pejorative terms: "her eyes are like hothouse grapes and her mouth was redly mobile, rich with discontent" (182).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1394 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNarcissa Benbow http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/narcissa-benbow
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sister of Horace Benbow, with whom she seems to have an unusually close relationship, and second wife of Young Bayard, whom she married in 1919 and with whom her relationship is always strained. The most eligible upperclass woman in Jefferson, she is courted openly by Dr. Alford, and clandestinely by Bryon Snopes, whose anonymous love letters she keeps in her bedroom until Byron steals them. ("There Was a Queen" tells the story of how she recovered these letters.) On June 5, 1920, the same day of her husband's death, she gave birth to a son.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1395 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHorace Benbow http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/horace-benbow
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The last male descendant of the aristocratic Benbow family, Horace served as a noncombatant with the YMCA during World War I. Like his father he is a lawyer. Like Quentin Compson, he is characterized by his ineffectuality, and is often depicted at the mercy of his sister Narcissa, his mistress and eventual wife Belle, and even Belle's sister, Joan, with whom he has a very brief affair. By the end of the novel he and Belle have moved to a new town some distance from Jefferson, where Horace feels very much in exile; he returns to Jefferson as the central character in <em>Sanctuary</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1396 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Old Man) Will Fallshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-man-will-falls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the Civil War, Will Falls served with Colonel John Sartoris' irregular outfit, and often reminisces about those days with Old Bayard when he walks into town from the county poor farm. He successfully treats Bayard's wen with a natural remedy his grandmother learned from a Choctaw Indian.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1397 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduElnora Strotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/elnora-strother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Described as a "mulatto woman," in <em>Flags in the Dust</em> Elnora is explicitly identified as "Simon [Strother]'s tall yellow daughter" (36); she is also the mother of Isom and the sister of Caspey. In "There Was a Queen," she is Caspey's wife and mother of three children: Isom, Joby, and Saddie.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1398 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIsom http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/isom
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Elnora's son, Isom is described as "a negro lad lean and fluid of movement as a hound" (20). He is responsible for a number of chores around the Sartoris household, but most enjoys wearing Caspey's military uniform and taking the wheel of Bayard's car. There is no hint of how, if at all, he is being educated.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1399 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaspey Strotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/caspey-strother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Son of Simon Strother who served in a non-combatant role with the U.S. Army in France during World War I. When he returned home to Jefferson, he brought with him some wildly exaggerated tales about his military service, and a set of new ideas about racial equality which made his family very nervous and drove Old Bayard to hit him in the head with a stick of stove wood. After that he seems to accept his place as a servant of the Sartorises. (In "There Was a Queen" he is Simon's son-in-law, Elnora's husband, and in prison for stealing.)</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1400 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Little) Belle Mitchellhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/little-belle-mitchell
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The young daughter of Belle and Harry Mitchell, and, by the end of the novel, Horace Benbow's step-daughter. Belle likes showing her off. In <em>Sanctuary</em>, set ten years later, she is a young woman whose sexuality makes Horace so anxious that he feels forced to leave.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1401 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHarry Mitchell http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/harry-mitchell
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A cotton speculator and a good one; he was ugly as sin and kind-hearted and dogmatic and talkative" (188). Conventional to a fault, Harry does not know his wife Belle is having an affair with Horace, whom he likes. After Belle divorces him, Young Bayard sees him in a Chicago nightclub with a young woman who is apparently trying to rob him.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1402 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Aunt) Sally Wyatt http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/aunt-sally-wyatt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Though the Benbows and the narrator call her "Aunt Sally," there is no sign of any nieces or nephews. She is the neighbor and old family friend who stays with Narcissa while Horace is in France. The narrator calls her "a good old soul, but she lived much in the past, shutting her intelligence with a bland finality to anything which had occurred since 1901" (168).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1403 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBayard Sartoris (infant)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bayard-sartoris-infant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only child of Young Bayard's marriage to Caroline White. According to Jenny, Caroline named him Bayard "nine months before it was born" (51). He and his mother both died while Bayard was in France, probably of influenza.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1404 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDr. Alford http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dr-alford
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "newcomer" to Jefferson in his "thirties" (93), Dr. Alford shares offices with Dr. Peabody but expresses impatience and often contempt for Peabody's traditional ideas about the practice of medicine. He is courting Narcissa Benbow, but without arousing much interest in her.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1405 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDr. Lucius Peabody http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dr-lucius-peabody
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"The fattest man in Yocona" (as Faulkner names the county in this first Yoknapatawpha fiction) and almost ninety (94), Dr. Peabody is a fixture in the lives of many of Faulkner's characters, and the only character to appear in each of the first three Yoknapatawpha novels. Colonel Sartoris' regimental surgeon during the Civil War, he remains a close friend of the family and still practices medicine the old-fashioned way.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1406 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduV.K. Suratthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/vk-suratt-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Descended from one of the first white men to arrive in Yoknapatawpha, V. K. Suratt appears in many of Faulkner&#039;s works, though beginning with &quot;A Bear Hunt&quot; he is named V. K. Ratliff; Faulkner made the change after a real person named Suratt objected. A traveling salesman, based in Jefferson, who sold mainly sewing machines, but also on occasion parlor organs, radios, and televisions, Suratt grew up on a farm, and was a neighbor of the Snopes family. Much later in Faulkner&#039;s career he reveals that V.K.</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1407 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHub http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hub
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The young farmer who provides the moonshine that fuels the road trip Young Bayard takes to Oxford. He is married, and has a sister or a daughter named Sue, but his character seems summed up when he tells Suratt that he "dont give a damn" if anyone tells where the whiskey came from (138).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1408 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirgil Beard http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virgil-beard
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "pale, quiet boy of twelve or so" (104), Virgil is the son of the people who own the boarding house where Byron Snopes lives. To disguise his handwriting in the letters he sends Narcissa, Byron gets Virgil to write them by promising to buy him an air rifle. Despite Snopes' attempts to dodge that promise, Virgil is shrewd enough to make sure that he gets his gun -- and uses it to kill a mockingbird.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1409 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRafe MacCallumhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/rafe-maccallum
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A son of Virginius MacCallum, Sr., and twin brother of Stuart. He is an old friend of the Sartoris twins, John and Bayard, and tries to help Bayard with his pain by offering homemade whisky and a chance to talk about the war. He may also be the "Rafe" who, in <em>As I Lay Dying,</em> is the father of the child Dewey Dell is carrying. In <em>Knight's Gambit</em> and "The Tall Men" his last name is spelled McCallum.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1410 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoan Heppleton http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joan-heppleton
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Belle Mitchell's younger sister, who comes to Jefferson while Belle is away getting a divorce, to see what Horace Benbow is like; during the week she spends in town she and Horace have an affair. By the time she gets to Jefferson she has had a wide experience, both of the world (having lived in Hawaii, Australia and India, among other unnamed "random points half the world apart," 322) and of men (having been married a least twice and lived with at least one other man).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1411 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBuddy MacCallum http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buddy-maccallum
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The youngest of Virginius MacCallum's sons, Buddy served with valor in World War I, earning a medal that he never takes out at home, because his father refuses to acknowledge that he fought in a "Yankee" army (342). He is an avid hunter. Buddy is the MacCallum whom the rest of the family relies on to marry someday and perpetuate the name. In "The Tall Men," that name is spelled McCallum.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1412 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHenry MacCallum http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/henry-maccallum
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The second of Virginius' six sons, he handles the domestic side of the all-male MacCallum household, and is locally famous for the quality of his homemade whiskey.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1413 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirginius MacCallum, Sr. http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virginius-maccallum-sr
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A yeoman farmer. During the Civil War Virginius walked from Mississippi to Virginia to fight with Lee's army, then returned to Yoknapatawpha to father six sons. As a Southerner, he is very "unreconstructed," refusing to recognize his son Buddy's World War I service in a "Yankee" army.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1414 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLee MacCallum http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lee-maccallum
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the six sons of Virginius MacCallum. In "The Tall Men" his last name is spelled McCallum.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1415 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMandy http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mandy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is the only woman who lives at the MacCallum place, and the family cook.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1416 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRichard http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/richard
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He appears in the kitchen of the MacCallum place, though his role in the household or on the family's land is not specified.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1417 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro at MacCallums'http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-maccallums
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the three black men (the others are Richard, and an unnamed "half-grown negro boy") who live with the MacCallums, presumably as servants or tenant farmers, or he may be the "negro who assists" Henry make moonshine whiskey (335).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1418 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJackson MacCallum http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jackson-maccallum
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The eldest of Virginius MacCallum's sons, Jackson is described as "a sort of shy and impractical Cincinnatus" (337). Much to his father's disgust, he is attempting to transform hunting by interbreeding a fox and a hound.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1419 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduStuart MacCallum http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/stuart-maccallum
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A son of Virginius MacCallum, Sr., and the twin brother of Raphael "Rafe" MacCallum. He appears as Stuart McCallum in "The Tall Men."</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1420 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Farmerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-farmer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The black man in whose barn Young Bayard spends Christmas Eve and with whose family Bayard eats on Christmas. Later that day he carries Bayard to the nearest railroad station.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1421 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Woman http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Not described or named, she is the wife of the black farmer in whose barn Bayard spends his last night in Yoknapatawpha. She feeds him breakfast and dinner on Christmas Day.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1422 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBenbow Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/benbow-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Second son of Bayard Sartoris, III, but his only child with his second wife, Narcissa Benbow, and the only male Sartoris alive at the end of the novel. Though Aunt Jenny had named him "John" prior to his birth, Narcissa gave him her maiden name instead, making him the first Sartoris male in generations not to be named "John" or "Bayard." He was born on the same day his father died crashing an experimental airplane in Dayton, Ohio.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1423 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Carolina) Bayard Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/carolina-bayard-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In Aunt Jenny's stories, at least, this Bayard is an incredibly romantic figure, likened to "Richard First . . . before he went crusading" (11). During the Civil War he is Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's dashing aide-de-camp who is killed (by an unnamed Union cook who shoots him in the back) when he rides alone into a Union camp to disprove the assertion that "No gentleman has any business in this war" (17).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1424 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaroline Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/caroline-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Memphis girl who married Young Bayard Sartoris when he was teaching flying lessons there. She is identified mainly by her "wild bronze swirling" hair (45), but she is also recognizably a modern woman: she has no proper ideas about "keeping house," at least according to Jenny (51), and the narrator refers to "the brittle daring of her speech and actions" (73). She and her newborn son died, perhaps of influenza, in 1918, while her husband was fighting overseas in World War I.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1425 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRes http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/res
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A rotund man with bristling hair and lapping jowls like a Berkshire hog" (102), Res is the cashier at Old Bayard's bank.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1426 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Dr" Jones http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dr-jones
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Dr" is a nickname. He is the bank's janitor, about as old as Bayard (whom he calls "General"), and described only as "black and stooped with querulousness and age" (105).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1427 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Uncle" Bird http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/uncle-bird
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A member of the delegation from the Second Baptist Church that calls on Old Bayard Sartoris, requesting the $67.40 that Simon embezzled from the building fund.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1428 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Brother" Moorehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/brother-moore
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The member of the delegation from the Second Baptist Church who formally, and reluctantly, reads out to Old Bayard the amount of money Simon owes the church building fund. He is described as "a small ebon negro in sombre, over-large black" (284).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1429 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Parson http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-parson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The imposing-looking Pastor of the Second Baptist Church and leader of the delegation that calls on Old Bayard Sartoris, requesting him to pay back to the church the $67.40 that Simon embezzled from the building fund. The narrator describes him as "a huge, neckless negro in a Prince Albert coat . . . with an orotund air and a wild, compelling eye" (282).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1430 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Churchmember(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-churchmember1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the six members of the Second Baptist Church who call at the Sartoris plantation seeking restitution of the $67.40 that Simon has embezzled from the building fund.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1431 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Churchmember(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-churchmember2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the six members of the Second Baptist Church who call at the Sartoris plantation seeking restitution of the $67.40 that Simon has embezzled from the building fund.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1432 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Churchmember(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-churchmember3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the six members of the Second Baptist Church who call at the Sartoris plantation seeking restitution of the $67.40 that Simon has embezzled from the building fund.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1433 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Cane Mill Ownerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-cane-mill-owner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to only as "a sort of patriarch" among the Negro tenants on the Sartoris estate, and old enough to be "stooped with time," he owns the facilities -- the mill and mule that grind the sugar cane and the kettle in which the juice is boiled -- for making molasses (288).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1434 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Sis'" Rachelhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sis-rachel-flags-dust-character
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Physically described as "mountainous" (26) and identified as one of Jefferson's best cooks, she works for Belle and Harry Mitchell, and makes no effort to disguise her preference for Harry over his wife.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1435 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Servanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-servant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Described as "a thin woman in a funereal purple turban" who eats with gestures of "elegant gentility" while visiting with Sis' Rachel in the kitchen, she is presumably the maid of one of the white ladies attending Belle Mitchell's afternoon social (26).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:05 +0000Anonymous1436 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMeloney Harris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/meloney-harris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A young light negress" (27), she is Belle Mitchell's servant when <em>Flags in the Dust</em> begins, but soon goes into business for herself as a beautician with the money that Simon embezzles from the Second Baptist Church. At the end of the novel Simon is found murdered in her cabin.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1437 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Sarah Marders http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-sarah-marders
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A gossipy friend of Belle Mitchell's, it is she who tells Narcissa that her brother and Belle are having an affair. The narrator tells us that "her eyes were like the eyes of an old turkey, predatory and unwinking; a little obscene" (184).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1438 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFrankie http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/frankie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The youngest guest at Belle Mitchell's tennis party, Frankie is identified as the first woman in Jefferson to bob her hair.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1439 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two young men who play tennis with Horace and Frankie at Belle Mitchell's.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1440 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Expelled Undergraduatehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-expelled-undergraduate
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the narrative does not describe this "youth" in any detail, it does specific the "practical joke" for which he was expelled "from the state university": "he had removed the red lantern from the barrier about a street excavation and hung it above the door of the girls' dormitory" (186).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1441 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEunice http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eunice
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Benbows' cook. Her specialty is a chocolate pie.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1443 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMyrtle http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/myrtle
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "young woman" who works for Doctors Alford and Peabody as a receptionist. In her exchanges with Miss Jenny, she is alternately a trained professional and a deferential southern girl.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1444 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Beard http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-beard
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She manages the boarding house where Byron Snopes stays, until he moves in order to escape the persistence of her son Virgil. In <em>Sanctuary</em>, it is another Byron who lives in her hotel -- Bryon Bunch.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1445 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Horse Traderhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-horse-trader
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A horse trader by profession," with the usual unscrupulousness of that profession (127). The fact that "he was usually engaged in litigation with the railroad company over the violent demise of some of his stock by its agency" makes him very similar to I. O. Snopes in "Mule in the Yard." (In <em>Flags in the Dust</em> I. O. runs Flem's restaurant.)</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1446 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTobehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tobe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The employee of the white horse trader who owns the stallion Young Bayard tries to ride; according to the trader, Tobe is the only person the horse allows to handle him.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1447 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Station Agenthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-station-agent
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He greets Horace Benbow warmly upon his return to Jefferson from World War I.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1448 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSol http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sol
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The porter who helps Horace with his luggage when he returns to Jefferson from France.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1449 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Baggage Clerk http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-baggage-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man inside the train's baggage car. Though his race is not specified, he reply to Horace's concern about the fragility of his glass blowing equipment -- "we ain't hurt her none., I reckon If we have, all you got to do is sue is" -- suggests he is white (157).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1450 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Marine Privatehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-marine-private
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>His insignia identifies him as belonging to the Second Marine Division, which saw heavy combat during World War I; he expresses his contempt for Horace's Y.M.C.A. uniform, which marks him as a non-combatant, by "making a vulgar sound of derogation" and spitting, "not exactly at Horace's feet, and not exactly anywhere else" (158-59).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1451 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Sophia Wyatt http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-sophia-wyatt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sally Wyatt's older sister, who runs the household in which the three elderly Wyatt sisters live "in a capable shrewish fashion" (175).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1452 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduI. O. Snopes http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/i-o-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A nimble, wiry little man with a talkative face like a nutcracker," I.O. is the Snopes whom Flem Snopes brings to Jefferson to run the restaurant (235). Byron Snopes moves in with him after leaving the Beard Hotel.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1453 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduClarence Snopes http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/clarence-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The son of I. O. Snopes; his "hulking but catlike presence" (235) makes Bryon Snopes nervous after Bryon moves in with I.O.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1454 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Blind Negro Musicianhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-blind-negro-musician
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is the beggar sitting in front of Rogers' restaurant, "a man of at least forty" who is wearing a motley collection of uniforms and playing a guitar and harmonica (which the narrative calls a "mouthorgan," 118). The narrative describes what he plays as "a plaintive reiteration of rich monotonous chords, rhythymic as a mathematical formula but without music" (118).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1455 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHoustonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/houston
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "younger of the two negroes" who work in the restaurant that occupies the back half of Rogers' store. He has a "broad untroubled" and "reliable sort of face" (120). In return for serving setups to Young Bayard and Rafe MacCallum, they share some of Henry MacCallum's moonshine whisky with him.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1456 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDeacon Rogershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/deacon-rogers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>His physical description is striking: "His head was like an inverted egg; his hair curled meticulously away from the part in the center into two careful reddish-brown wings, like a toupee, and his eyes were a melting passionate brown" (120). His demeanor is ingratiating. His cafe is mentioned again in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1457 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEustace Grahamhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eustace-graham
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A young lawyer" who doesn't realize Young Bayard is drunk (125), he tries to introduce Sartoris to a fellow veteran named Gratton, and then works to smooth Gratton's ruffled feathers after the Bayard ignores him.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1458 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Grattonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-gratton
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A short-tempered veteran of World War I, and presumably, since Eustace Graham tries to introduce him to Young Bayard, not from Yoknapatawpha.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1459 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Telegraph Operator http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-telegraph-operator
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The diffident "young man" (according to Miss Jenny, at least) who does not know what to do after she hands in a telegram for Bayard, without knowing, as he does, that Bayard has died (392). Based on this behavior, he cannot be the same telegraph operator as the one who appears in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1460 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHub's Wife http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hubs-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She stands in the doorway of her small house and watches Hub, Suratt and Young Bayard as they leave to go to town. In her "flat country voice," she speaks only one word, "Hub" (138).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1461 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMitch http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mitch
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two "young" white men (the other is Hub) who spend an evening with Young Bayard, along with Reno and two other young black men, drinking, driving and serenading ladies out of and in Jefferson. Mitch sings "Goodnight, Ladies" in a "true, oversweet tenor" voice (143).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1462 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRenohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/reno
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only named one among the three black musicians who accompany Young Bayard, Hub and Mitch on their trip to the neighboring college town to serenade young women. Reno plays the clarinet, and loses his hat when Bayard steps on the gas of his roadster.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1463 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Musician(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-musician1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the "three negroes" who accompany Young Bayard on his drunken trip to the neighboring college town to serenade the co-eds. He plays either the bass viol or the guitar.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1464 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Musician(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-musician2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the "three negroes" who accompany Young Bayard on his drunken trip to the neighboring college town to serenade the co-eds. He plays either the bass viol or the guitar.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1465 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBuck http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buck
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The town marshall who follows Miss Jenny's orders to get care of Young Bayard, giving up his own bed in the jail building to allow Sartoris to sleep off the effects of his fall and his drinking.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1466 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPappy http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/pappy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "older" of the two Negroes who rescue Young Bayard after his car goes off the bridge and carry him home; he is suspicious both of meddling with a white man and of the automobile. The "younger" Negro is his son, John Henry.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1467 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJohn Henry http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/john-henry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Pappy's son, the "younger" of the two Negroes who help Young Bayard after his car goes off the bridge; he treats Bayard's broken body with great gentleness.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1468 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTurpin http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/turpin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Father of Minnie Sue Turpin, whom Byron Snopes stops to see on his flight from Jefferson after robbing the bank. He may be one of the two Turpins who is mentioned in <em>The Mansion</em>, or Turpin may be another clan in Frenchman's Bend. He is clearly a shiftless farmer.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1469 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMinnie Sue Turpin http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/minnie-sue-turpin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A young woman whom Byron Snopes has courted in the past, and whom he "paws" in a sordid attempt at sex on his flight from town after robbing the bank. She seems unfazed by his behavior, though also unaccommodating, ordering him to "come back tomorrer, when you git over this" (281).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1470 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Ford Driverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-ford-driver
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>More a symbol of modernity than a character, he is driving badly and wearing "a woman's stocking wrapped about his head and tied beneath his hat" when he swerves into the path of Young Bayard's car, causing the accident in which Old Bayard dies (326).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1471 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Girl http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-girl
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The oldest of the "three pickaninnies" who live with their parents in the lonely cabin where Young Bayard spends Christmas Eve and Christmas morning; she wears "greasy, nondescript garments, her wool twisted into tight knots of soiled wisps of colored cloth" (364).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1472 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Child(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-child2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The middle child of the black sharecroppers who let Young Bayard sleep in their barn and share their Christmas dinner; of the gender of this child the narrative says only, and strangely, "The second one might have been either or anything" (364).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1473 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Child(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-child3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The youngest of the three children of the black sharecroppers who let Young Bayard sleep in their barn and share their Christmas dinner; "too small to walk . . . it crawl[s] about the floor in a sort of intense purposelessness" (364).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1474 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDr. Lucius Peabody, Jr. http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dr-lucius-peabody-jr
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only child of Dr. Peabody, he practices medicine as a surgeon in New York City, but at least once a year returns to spend a day with his father.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1475 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral J.E.B. Stuarthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-jeb-stuart
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was one of the most famous and flamboyant Confederate officers. In <em>Flags in the Dust</em> he and "Carolina" Bayard Sartoris, Stuart's friend and aide-de-camp, embody the spirit of chivalry and romantic daring that the narrative identifies with pre-Modern life. Aunt Jenny says she danced with Stuart once, before the war, in Baltimore.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1476 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Majorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-major
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "fat staff-major" whom Jeb Stuart and Carolina Bayard capture when they raid General Pope's headquarters (13). He takes his bad fortune stoically, but it is his assertion that "there is no place" for a gentleman in the war that provokes Sartoris into the act of bravado that results in his death (17).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1477 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Cookhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-cook
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is hiding inside General Pope's "wrecked commissary tent" when Carolina Bayard returns for the anchovies (18); the derringer shot he fires from his hiding place into Sartoris' back kills him.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1478 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDr. Brandthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dr-brandt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Memphis medical specialist to whom Dr. Alford refers Old Bayard. When Bayard's wen falls off, thanks to Will Falls' folk remedy, in Brandt's waiting room, the doctor sends him a bill for $50.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1479 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Smithhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-smith
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The receptionist and switchboard operator at Dr. Brandt's office in Memphis.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1480 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPloecknerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ploeckner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The German pilot who shot down Johnny Sartoris in combat, and was in turn shot down by Young Bayard some days later. Bayard says that he is one of the proteges of Manfred von Richthofen, the pilot known as the "Red Baron."</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1481 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduZeb Fothergill http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/zeb-fothergill
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A member of Colonel John Sartoris' irregular unit, with a special ability to get behind Union lines and come back with at least one horse. He and the Colonel are racing when Sartoris surprises and captures the company of Yankee cavalry in Calhoun county.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1482 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Express Agent http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-express-agent
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The non-descript employee at the "new, ugly yellow station" in the town Horace and Belle are living in at the end of the novel (373).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1483 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Railroad Clerk http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-railroad-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The railroad employee who, once a week, delivers Belle's shrimp to Horace from "the door of the express car" (374-75). He assumes Horace must be using it for bait.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1484 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Young Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-young-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A slim, long thing, mostly legs apparently, with a bold red mouth and cold eyes" (384). She is Bayard's companion at the Chicago night club where he agrees to fly the experimental plane; her mouth may be bold, but she says she is afraid of him: "He'll do anything" (386).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1485 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Inventor http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-inventor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "shabby man" with "intense, visionary eyes," he thinks he has perfected a new prototype airplane (384). When he complains that none of "you damned yellow-livered pilots" will test it for him, Young Bayard agrees to fly it (387).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000Anonymous1486 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMonaghanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/monaghan
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He flew with the Sartoris twins during the war, and is still in the service when Bayard drinks with him in the nightclub in Chicago. He tries to talk Bayard out of testing the inventor's new plane.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1487 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Aviatorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-aviator
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The fellow aviator at the Dayton airfield who, after trying to talk Bayard out of flying the experimental plane, loans him a helmet and goggles, and offers him a woman's garter for luck.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1488 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Earl Van Dornhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-earl-van-dorn
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Van Dorn is mentioned but does not appear in the novel. From Claiborne County, Mississippi, he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to join the Confederacy, and saw a lot of service fighting in the western theater of the Civil War. He was killed in 1863 by a jealous husband.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1489 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLucy Cranston Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lucy-cranston-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Wife of John Sartoris, II and mother of twins, Bayard and John. Little else is known about her, except that on her sons' seventh birthday she gave them both New Testaments with a written inscription.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1490 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJohn Sartoris IIhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/john-sartoris-ii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Son and only child of Old Bayard Sartoris. He married Lucy Cranston, with whom he fathered twin sons, Bayard and John. He fought in the Spanish-American War and died in 1901, succumbing to yellow fever and a wound suffered during the war.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1491 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEuphrony Strotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/euphrony-strother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Simon Strother's wife.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1492 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJobe http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jobe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A slave on the Sartoris plantation. In <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, he is referred to as Simon Strother's grandfather. He was married to Louvinia.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1493 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLouvinia http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/louvinia
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As a slave she served as cook for the Sartoris family, and helped Colonel John Sartoris escape from the Yankees by having his boots and pistol ready for him when he needed them. She was married to Jobe.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1494 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAbehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/abe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At Thanksgiving dinner at the Sartorises', Dr. Peabody mentions Abe as one of the gillies who help the gentlemen who come to fish his pond. When asked "how many [other black retainers] have you got," Peabody says "six or seven" adults, and an unspecified number of "scrubs," but they are not named (303).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1495 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFrancis Benbowhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/francis-benbow
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The father of Will Benbow, and grandfather of Horace and Narcissa. He brought back a lantana tree "from Barbados in a tophat-box in '71" (164). When he went to the island, however, or what he did there, is not explained.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1496 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJulia Benbowhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/julia-benbow
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The wife of Will Benbow, and mother of Horace and Narcissa. Julia died when Narcissa was seven years old. Narcissa remembers her as "a gentle figure . . . like a minor shrine, surrounded always by an aura of gentle melancholy and an endless and delicate manipulation of colored silken thread" (172).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1497 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWill Benbowhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/will-benbow
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Apparently the only son of Francis Benbow. He married Julia, with whom he had two children, Horace and Narcissa, and practiced law in Jefferson. He died not long after his wife. Narcissa remembers him as "a darkly gallant shape" - "a being something like Omnipotence but without awesomeness" (172).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1498 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWill C. Beardhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/will-c-beard
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "mild, bleached man of indeterminate age and of less than medium size" (104), Will Beard owns a grist mill in Jefferson and the boarding house where Byron Snopes lives - though that is run by his wife. He is identified by the "evil reek" of his "black evil pipe" (104, 105).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1500 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Emancipated Black Votershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-emancipated-black-voters
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is a generic icon, representing the group of emancipated slaves who try to vote in Jefferson in 1872. As Will Falls tells the story, Colonel Sartoris prevents them from doing so by standing in the door and intimidating them.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1501 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Freedmen's Bureau Agent(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-freedmens-bureau-agent1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Will Falls calls the two men who work for the U.S. Freedmen's Bureau and try to preserve the newly won rights of emancipated slaves "them two cyarpet-baggers" when he tells the story of how Colonel Sartoris drove them away from the voting place and then shot them in Mrs. Winterbottom's boarding house (23). In <em>Light in August</em> we learn that they are both named Calvin Burden, and are Joanna's grandfather and half-brother.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1502 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Freedmen's Bureau Agent(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-freedmens-bureau-agent2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Will Falls calls the two men who work for the U.S. Freedmen's Bureau and try to preserve the newly won rights of emancipated slaves "them two cyarpet-baggers" when he tells the story of how Colonel Sartoris drove them away from the voting place and then shot them in Mrs. Winterbottom's boarding house (23). In <em>Light in August</em> we learn that they are both named Calvin Burden, and are Joanna's grandfather and half-brother.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1503 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Winterbottom http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-winterbottom
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The woman who owns the boarding house in Jefferson where the two Freedmen's Bureau Agents are staying; according to Will Falls' story about the event, she stands "gapin' after him with her mouth open" when Colonel Sartoris goes up to their room and shoots them both (243).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1504 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRedlawhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/redlaw
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He was Colonel Sartoris' partner in building the railroad through Yoknapatawpha until they fell out; after Sartoris defeated him in an election in 1876, Redlaw shot and killed him on the street in front of the courthouse. His name changes to "Ben Redmond" in <em>The Unvanquished</em>, where he also plays a larger role.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1505 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWattshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/watts
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He owns the hardward store in downtown Jefferson.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1506 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDr. Straudhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dr-straud
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The famous New York surgeon and medical researcher with whom Dr. Peabody's son, Lucius Jr., works.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1508 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduComynhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/comyn
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to by Monaghan as "that big Irish devil" (387), Comyn was Royal Air Force flyer (identified in "Ad Astra" as a lieutenant) with whom Young Bayard and Johnny Sartoris flew during World War I.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1509 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBaron von Richthofenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/baron-von-richthofen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron," shot down more planes than any other aviator in World War I. Young Bayard tells his grandfather and great-great-aunt that the German pilot who shot down Johnny was one of his students.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1510 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSibleighhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sibleigh
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Royal Air Force flyer who agrees to serve as bait to lure Ploeckner into the sights of Bayard's fighter.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1511 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Unc'" Henryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unc-henry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the blacks who sharecrops on the Sartoris estate; the possum hunt that Bayard and Narcissa go on with Caspey and Isom begins behind his cabin.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1513 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaptain Wyatthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/captain-wyatt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the Confederate officers who rides with J.E.B. Stuart; it is on his horse that the captured Union Major is carried. (He does not seem to be related in any way to the Wyatt sisters who lives near the Benbows in Jefferson.)</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1514 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAllanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/allan
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Confederate officer who prevents J.E.B. Stuart from following Carolina Bayard on his reckless quest for anchovies by reminding him of his duty to the army.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1515 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMontgomery Ward Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/montgomery-ward-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of I.O. Snopes' sons; after faking a heart condition to evade the draft, he accompanies Horace Benbow as to World War I as a non-combatant.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1516 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFlem Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/flem-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the major characters in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, in <em>Flags in the Dust</em> he is merely referred to in one paragraph. But this one passage does outline Flem's rise from his poor white origins in Frenchman's Bend to his current position as vice-president of the bank founded and run by Old Bayard Sartoris, as well as his practice of bringing other Snopeses in to Jefferson in what the narrative implies is a kind of assault on the town.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:13 +0000Anonymous1517 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Half-grown Negro Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-half-grown-negro-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the three black males who are present in the MacCallum household when Young Bayard arrives. His role in the family or on the family's land is not clear.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:50:53 +0000sfr1518 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bank Directorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bank-director
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An undescribed man who has a Coca-Cola with Res and Byron inside the bank.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:21:44 +0000sfr1519 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Delivery Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-delivery-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He brings Res, Byron and the unnamed bank director the soft drinks they ordered from "a neighboring drug store" (102).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:24:46 +0000sfr1520 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various Union soldiers who appear in the stories that Old Man Falls and Miss Jenny Du Pre tell about the Civil War. Although never individualized, they play an important role in Faulkner's larger story when they ride up to the Sartoris planation house and force Colonel John to flee for his life. In a later story Falls tells, the Colonel triumphs over a different group of them in daring fashion, single-handedly capturing a Union unit and confiscating their equipment and horses.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:29:45 +0000sfr1521 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"One of the grandsons" of the patriarchal Negro who provides the facilities for making molasses from sugar cane; he feeds the cane into the mill, and "roll[s] his eyes covertly" at Young Bayard and Narcissa as they watch the process (288).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:19:50 +0000sfr1524 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Trainhandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-trainhand
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of "two negroes" -- the other is Sol -- who help Horace unload his baggage from the train on which he returns to Jefferson.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:20:43 +0000sfr1525 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Wyatthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-wyatt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The youngest of the three unmarried Wyatt sisters. She is not named, nor does she appear directly in the narrative.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:34:22 +0000sfr1526 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSuehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sue
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Either Hub's daughter or, less likely, his sister. She does not appear in the narrative, but he tells his wife that Sue will "have to milk" the cow because he is going to town with Bayard and Suratt (138).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:51:24 +0000sfr1527 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduOld Bayard's Aunthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-bayards-aunt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Will Falls begins the novel by re-telling Old Bayard the story about the time the Yankee patrol chased Colonel Sartoris away from his plantation, he reminds Bayard that among the people living there was "yo' aunt, the one 'fo' Miss Jenny come" (22). According to Falls' story, she is "a full-blood Sartoris," but this is the only time Faulkner's fiction mentions her existence.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:38:31 +0000sfr1528 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Ulysses S. Granthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-ulysses-s-grant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While Grant does not personally appear in the novel, he commands the Union forces who do appear in Mississippi, and Will Falls mentions him by name in the second of the two stories he tells about those "times back in sixty-three and -fo'" (228).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:19:49 +0000sfr1529 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduForrest, Nathan Bedfordhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/forrest-nathan-bedford
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He does not appear in the novel, but is mentioned by name in one of Will Falls' stories about the Civil War. A planter and slave trader before the war, he served in the western theater and rose from Private to General. Falls suggests how raggedy is one group of horses that Zeb Fothergill stole from the Yankees by saying that not even "Nate Forrest would . . . have 'em" (230). Accused of war crimes during the war, and the founder of the Ku Klux Klan after it, he is nonetheless idolized by many of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha veterans.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:29:17 +0000sfr1530 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoe Johnstonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joe-johnston
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the South's main commanders throughout the Civil War, he had charge of the Department of the West, where Mississippi was, after 1863. He is mentioned (as "Joe Johnston") in Will Falls' story about Zeb Fothergill's prowess as a war-time horse thief.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:36:31 +0000sfr1531 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Confederate Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-confederate-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is a generic icon, representing the various Confederate troops who appear in the stories that both Old Man Falls and Aunt Jenny tell about what Old Bayard calls "those days" -- i.e., the Civil War.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:40:36 +0000sfr1532 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mail Carrierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mail-carrier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "lank, goose-necked man with a huge pistol strapped to his thigh" to whom, at the end of the novel, Horace gives the letter he has written to Narcissa back in Jefferson (374).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:47:04 +0000sfr1533 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Wearing an expression of "harried desperation," she sits with Harry MItchell at the Chicago nightclub where (unrecognized by Harry) Young Bayard agrees to fly the experimental airplane. It seems that after getting Harry drunk, she steals his diamond tiepin; when the waiter apparently tries to stop her, her voice rises "with a burst of filthy rage into a shrill hysterical scream" (388).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:01:27 +0000sfr1534 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Waiterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-waiter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Described as having "a head like a monk's," this waiter struggles with the woman who has stolen the drunken Harry Mitchell's diamond tiepin, though there is no way to know if his intention is to return it or to keep it for himself (388).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:04:17 +0000sfr1535 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Rural Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-rural-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This generic icon represents the numerous black men, women and children whose slow-moving, mule-drawn wagons Young Bayard finds some strange pleasure in frightening by nearly hitting them as he drives his powerful car around the county's roads. They are never named or individualized, except by their alarmed faces and rolling eyes.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:19:48 +0000sfr1537 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Robberhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-robber
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Not named or described except as "that robber" whom Colonel John Sartoris killed (23), probably as he was trying to rob the money Sartoris carried as he was building the railroad through Yoknapatawpha .</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:31:40 +0000sfr1538 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Feller"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-feller
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is mentioned by Old Man Falls simply as "that other feller" Colonel John Sartoris killed sometime after the Civil War, "When he had to start killin' folks" (23).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:33:52 +0000sfr1539 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Tenant Farmershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-tenant-farmers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As the narrator says, "the Sartoris place was farmed on shares" (289). The black tenant farmers are not slaves, though Simon thinks of them as "field niggers," a label left over from slavery (241). In the narrative these share croppers are more like part of the landscape than characters, but they are mentioned several times -- first when they "raise their hands" to "salute" Bayard as he drives home from the bank at the beginning of the novel (8).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:48:33 +0000sfr1542 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDaughter of John Sartoris(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/daughter-john-sartoris1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Twenty-two years old when Jenny Du Pre arrives in Mississippi, and so two years older than Bayard, she is not named or described. From Will Falls' story we learn that she and her younger sister were sent to Memphis during the Civil War; the narrator tells us later that she is planning to marry in June, 1870.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:04:48 +0000sfr1543 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDaughter of John Sartoris(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/daughter-john-sartoris2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Two years younger than Bayard, she was sent with her older sister to Memphis during the Civil War, but is back at the Sartoris plantation at Christmas time, 1869, to hear Aunt Jenny tell the story of "Carolina" Bayard's death. Other than that, she remains very elusive as a character, also like her sister.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:08:16 +0000sfr1544 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Scottish Engineerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-scottish-engineer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel Sartoris met him while they were both fighting in the Mexican War. After the Civil War, Sartoris brings him to Yoknapatawpha to help with the building of the railroad. He seems bemused by Jenny Du Pre's story about "Carolina" Bayard, but other than that he is invisible.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:11:43 +0000sfr1545 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Chauffeurhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-chauffeur
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Clad in army o.d. and a pair of linoleum putties," this chauffeur offers to fetch Simon from the kitchen at the Mitchell house for Miss Jenny (30).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:05:03 +0000sfr1547 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the other black soldiers whom Caspey Strother mentions in the stories about World War I he tells his family. He never mentions any of their names, usually referring to them as "boys," but he does refer specifically to two: "de Captain's dog-robber" and "a school boy" (59). (Caspey's stories are obviously wild exaggerations, if not outright inventions, but there were large numbers of African American soldiers -- enlisted men, draftees and officers -- who served during the war in one of the two all-black divisions created by the U.S. Army.)</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:01:44 +0000sfr1548 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Carnival Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-carnival-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the "carnival man" who explains how to fly a hot air balloon to Young John Sartoris -- or at least tries to.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:26:12 +0000sfr1553 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Cookhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-cook
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The older of the two Negroes who work in Rogers' restaurant. The narrative does not explicitly call him the cook, but since it describes the cooking that is going on and identifies the "younger of the two," Houston, as the waiter, he must be the cook.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:03:43 +0000sfr1555 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Allied Aviatorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-allied-aviators
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the pilots whom Young Bayard evokes in his memories of World War I; when he talks to Rafe MacCallum "about the war," for example, the narrative says he is talking about "young men like fallen angels, and of a meteoric violence like that of fallen angels" (123).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:26:59 +0000sfr1560 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Australian Majorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-australian-major
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Young Bayard mentions him during his talk with Rafe MacCallum "about the war"; the memory features a fight in "the Leicester lounge" in which "the Anzac lost two teeth" and Bayard himself "got a black eye" (124). The fight may have been over "two ladies," and may have been between Bayard and the Major, but none of that is made clear. Faulkner may have meant this character to be the same as the Australian major whose teeth Bayard knocks out in a bar in London (cf. 385).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:34:40 +0000sfr1561 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Women College Studentshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-women-college-students
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the college women in the neighboring town (obviously Oxford) whom Young Bayard (along with Mitch and Suratt and three Negro musicians) serenades. They are only seen as shapes leaning out of the windows of the co-ed dorm, "aureoled against the lighted rooms behind," "feminine and delicately and divinely young" (143).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:22:28 +0000sfr1562 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Gardener-Stableman-Chauffeurhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-gardener-stableman-chauffeur
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative refers to him once as "the combination gardener-stableman-chauffeur" and once as "the house-yard-stable boy," but does not otherwise describe him (189). He takes over some of Meloney Harris' tasks at the Mitchells after she quits as Belle's maid.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:06:46 +0000sfr1569 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Music Teacherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-music-teacher
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Little Belle Mitchell's piano teacher, who assists her during her recital, runs closely to type: "a thin, passionate spinster with cold thwarted eyes behind nose glasses" (200).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:14:15 +0000sfr1571 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEmily Griersonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/emily-grierson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Miss Emily, as the story’s narrator explains, is “a tradition, a duty, and a care, a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (119). In other words, she is a recluse and a source of fascination for the townspeople of Jefferson, who keep a constant eye on her doings. She never married, but was known to have had for about a year a single suitor, Homer Barron, who disappeared one day without a trace. Although no specific birth date is available, it is likely she was born on or around 1850 - in any case before the Civil War.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:51:39 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1575 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTobehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tobe-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator describes Tobe as "an old man-servant - a combined gardener and cook" (119), and never refers to him except as "the Negro" or "the Negro man" (120, 122, etc.). The only time we hear his name is when Emily calls him to her (121). He appears to have been in her employ since he was "young man" (122), and at least since the time her father died. Earlier drafts of "A Rose for Emily" include an extended conversation between him and Emily. His role in the published version of the story is entirely silent and elusive.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:57:30 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1576 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHomer Barronhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/homer-barron
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Homer Barron is the "big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face" who comes to Jefferson to to oversee the workers paving the town's sidewalks (124). When he and Emily Grierson begin appearing in public together in "the yellow-wheeled buggy . . . from the livery stable," the town is soon scandalized that "a Grierson" might think "seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer" (124). Homer tells the "younger men in the Elks' Club . . . that he is not a marrying man," which has led a few modern commentators to suggest that he may be gay (126).</p></div></div></div>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:05:21 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1577 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Youthhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-youth
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While Bayard recovers from his first accident, this "youth who hung around one of the garages in town" drives his car to Memphis for repairs (267).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:43:57 +0000sfr1598 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the man who provides Byron Snopes with the Ford car in which he flees Yokapatawpha after robbing the bank. He is identified simply as "the negro [Byron] sought," and Byron finds him just off the Square, on a "street occupied by negro stores and barber shops" (272).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:58:36 +0000sfr1602 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Mammyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-mammy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to only as "the placid, gaily turbaned mountain who superintended his hours," she is the mammy who takes care of Narcissa and Bayard's new-born son (395).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:12:28 +0000sfr1627 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As mayor of Jefferson Colonel Sartoris remits Emily's local taxes, dating from the death of her father. The story he invents to disguise his act of charity identifies him as a gentleman of the old school. He is a major figure in the Yoknapatawpha fictions as a group, the only son of the original Colonel, John Sartoris; although it isn't evident in the story, the son's title of "Colonel" is entirely honorific; he himself never fought in any wars.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:46:22 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1632 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mayorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mayor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This mayor takes office in the early 20th century, and seems much less 'chivalrous' than his 19th-century predecessor, Colonel Sartoris, who treats Emily as a "lady" who should not be bothered about financial matters. This new mayor sees her first and foremost as a tax-payer, though he is chivalrous enough to offer to send a car to bring her to the town's offices to pay her long-overdue property tax.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:49:57 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1633 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduV.K. Suratthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/vk-suratt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Suratt is the story's narrator. He is staying at Mrs. Littlejohn's boarding house, a base from which he travels around to conduct his business as a salesman, thus witnessing and hearing accounts of the events he portrays. He begins the story with "Yes, sir. Flem Snopes has filled that whole country full of spotted horses" (165), giving the story the feel of a casual conversation, perhaps one held on the front porch of Varner's store. We know his name only because V.K. Suratt, the sewing machine salesman, frequently appears in Faulkner's work.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:40:09 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1636 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFlem Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/flem-snopes-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The story begins "Yes, sir. Flem Snopes has filled that whole country full of spotted horses" (165) and ends with I.O. claiming "You can't git ahead of Flem. You can't touch him. Aint'he a sight now?" (183). As this presentation suggests, Flem is arguably the central character of "Spotted Horses," though he appears little in the action of the story. Flem Snopes appears throughout the Yoknapatawpha saga as a representative of a modern, upwardly mobile, capitalist 20th century American ethos. His final action in "Spotted Horses" of giving Mrs.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:54:00 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1637 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJody Varnerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jody-varner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Will Varner’s son and Eula Snopes brother, whom Flem Snopes supplants in the running of Varner's store. The narrator predicts that if they were both in the store in ten years "it would be Jody clerking for Flem Snopes" (166).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:49 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1638 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUncle Billy Varnerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/uncle-billy-varner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Uncle Billy Varner is one of the biggest land and business owners in Frenchman's Bend. When he finds out that Eula, his daughter, is pregnant, he arranges for Flem and Eula to marry. Perhaps due to his experience treating animals on his farm, Mrs. Littlejohn sends for him later in the story to set Henry Armstid's broken leg.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:13:38 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1639 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEula Varnerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eula-varner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Uncle Billy Varner’s youngest daughter, Jody’s sister and Flem Snopes wife. Eula is described as a fertile and earthy female, a “big, soft-looking [gal] that could giggle richer than plowed new-ground” attracting competitive suitors who swarm around her “like bees around a honey pot” (166). When she becomes pregnant, her father presumably arranges for her to marry Flem Snopes and they move to Texas for about a year. When she returns with a “three-months-old” who “can already pull up on a chair” (167) it is no great secret to the townspeople what has transpired.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:19:15 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1640 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBuckhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buck-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to as "the Texas man" by the narrator, Buck carries "a ivory-handled pistol and a box of gingersnaps" in his back pocket (167). The day after he arrives at Mrs. Littlejohn's, he auctions off the wild ponies that he and Flem have brought back from Texas. At the end of that day he drives off on the buckboard wagon he swapped for the last two horses. Although he takes advantage of the men of Frenchman's Bend, he is sympathetic to Mrs. Armstid and refuses to accept Henry Armstid’s bid, though Henry later forces his five dollars on Flem who is not as scrupulous.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:24:43 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1641 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Littlejohnhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-littlejohn
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Littlejohn is a hard-working, pragmatic widow and the owner of Littlejohn's Hotel, the boarding house where the narrator stays when he is in Frenchman's bend. The narrator tells us that during the horse auction "she would stand at the fence a while and then go back into the house and come out again with a arm full of wash and stand at the fence again" (169). Indeed, Mrs. Littlejohn watches out for the welfare of those involved in the horse-sale, especially the ill-fated Armstids.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:28:55 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1642 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEck Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eck-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Eck Snopes is one of Flem's cousins, though the narrator tells us that "Flem would skin Eck quick as he would ere a one of us"(168). After Eck helps board and feed the ponies, the Texas man gives him one to help start the bidding. The horse later runs in and out of Mrs. Littlejohn's boarding house, jumping right over Eck's boy's head. Eck finally catches it by tying a rope across a blind lane, but the horse breaks its neck in the process.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:35:07 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1643 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHenry Armstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/henry-armstid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Henry Armstid appears in the story at the auction; he comes "Shoving up to the gate in them patched overalls and one of them dangle-armed shirts of hisn" (169). He is a poor and foolish farmer who, in spite of his wife’s protests, squanders her hard-earned five dollars on a horse that he cannot catch. He eventually breaks his leg trying. He may be the Armstid in <em>As I Lay Dying</em> and <em>Light in August</em> though in the first novel his wife's name is Lula while in <em>Light in August</em> and the Snopes trilogy her name is Martha.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:42:12 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1644 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Armstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-armstid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Armstid is mistreated and abused by her husband, Henry, who bids on a spotted pony using her hard-earned five dollars after she repeatedly pleads with him not to. We hear both her desperation and resolved self-effacement when she implores the Texan to keep Henry from doing it: "Mister, . . . we got chaps in the house and not corn to feed the stock. We got five dollars I earned my chaps a-weaving after dark, and him snoring in the bed. And he hain't no more despair" (171). After Henry breaks his leg trying to keep the horse from running away, Mrs.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:48:15 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1645 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIna May Armstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ina-may-armstid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Armstid's oldest daughter who takes care of the rest of her siblings while Mrs. Armstid is shuttling back and forth to take care of her injured husband at Mrs. Littlejohn's. According to Mrs. Armstid "Ina May bars the door" and keeps "the axe in bed with her" while her mother is away (179).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:50:23 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1646 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAd Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ad-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Eck Snopes young son, referred to as "Ad" by his father and as "Eck’s boy" by everyone else in the story, runs around trying to help his father catch their spotted pony. When the horse is trying to escape from Mrs. Littlejohn's boardinghouse, Ad stands "a yard tall maybe" and "that horse swoared over his head without touching a hair" (175).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:58:04 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1647 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduI.O. Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/io-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Flem Snopes' cousin to whom Flem turns over his clerking job at Jody Varner's store. I.O. admires his cousin and proudly "cackle[s], like a hen" when he finds out that Flem has swindled everyone with horses that were not his own. I.O exclaims "You boys might just as well quit trying to get ahead of Flem" (181).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:31:11 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1648 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Bundrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-bundren
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "Mrs. Bundren" is mentioned twice in the story by its narrator, Suratt, whose effort to sell her a sewing machine overlaps the appearance, auction and escape of the Texas horses. She never makes an appearance in the story, but presumably this is Addie Bundren, who plays such a major role in the novel <em>As I Lay Dying</em>, also published in 1931.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:35:40 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1649 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVernon Tullhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/vernon-tull
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Frenchman's Bend farmer who reappears in a number of Faulkner's fiction, Vernon Tull arrives in this story just in time to be run over by Eck's pony while returning from town with his family of women. The horse literally runs between the mules and over his wagon, flipping it and dragging Tull until the reins that are wrapped around him break.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:45:33 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1650 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Tullhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-tull
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Tull was with her husband, Vernon Tull, her aunt and three daughters on a one-lane bridge when their wagon was overturned after one of the wild ponies came running from the other direction.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:56:18 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1651 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Aunt of Mrs. Tullhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-aunt-mrs-tull
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Tull's aunt was in the wagon that overturned on the one-lane bridge when the Tull's mules are surprised by one of the wild ponies running from the other direction.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:02:41 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1652 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLon Quickhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lon-quick
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bids on one of the Texas ponies that Flem brought to Frenchman's bend. Follows "his horse clean down to Samson’s Bridge, with a wagon and a camp outfit" (180).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:06:50 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1653 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDurleyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/durley
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the men standing around on Mrs. Littlejohn's lot the evening of the auction. He is the one who suggests that Ernest should track down Mrs. Armstid to tell her that her husband has injured himself trying to catch one of the spotted ponies since "He lives neighbors with them" (177).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:08:50 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1654 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWinterbottomhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/winterbottom
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the men who are standing around Mrs. Littlejohn’s lot on the day of the auction.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:10:50 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1655 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduErnesthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ernest
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the men standing around on Mrs. Littlejohn's lot the evening of the auction. He is sent to find Mrs. Armstid and tell her that her husband has been injured trying to catch one of the spotted ponies. He also is selected from the group of boarders by Mrs. Littlejohn to help Will Varner set Henry's leg.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:12:57 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1656 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFreemanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/freeman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator sees Freeman passing in his wagon outside of Varner's store when Mrs Armstid is asking Flem for her money back.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:15:24 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1657 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Tull Daughter (1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-tull-daughter-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the 3 Tull daughter's caught on the bridge when a wild pony causes the family wagon to overturn.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:20:04 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1660 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Tull Daughter (2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-tull-daughter-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the 3 Tull daughter's caught on the bridge when a wild pony causes the family wagon to overturn.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:21:25 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1661 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Tull Daughter (3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-tull-daughter-3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the 3 Tull daughter's caught on the bridge when a wild pony causes the family wagon to overturn.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:22:27 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1662 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Armstid Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-armstid-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The three unnamed children left at home with their 12-year-old sister, Ina May, when Mrs. Armstid is commuting to Mrs. Littlejohn's place to take care of Henry.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:25:21 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1663 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Suitorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-suitors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnumbered and unnamed "young bucks," each with "yellow-wheeled buggy and curried riding horse," who "swarm[ed] around Eula like bees around a honey pot" every Sunday before Eula married Flem and moved to Texas (166).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:00 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1665 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEula Varner's Unnamed Infanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eula-varners-unnamed-infant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Eula returns from Texas with "as well-growed a three-months-old baby" as the narrator has ever seen (167). It's clear from the story that the child was conceived before Eula married Flem, and that its father is not Flem, but one of the unnamed men who had been courting Eula. When this child next appears in Faulkner's fiction, as an increasingly important character in the Snopes trilogy, it is identified as a daughter named Linda.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:14:55 +0000dotty.dye@asu.edu1671 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMinnie Cooperhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/minnie-cooper
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Jefferson woman, "thirty-eight or thirty-nine" years of age (173), who accuses Will Mayes of assault, setting Faulkner's story in motion. She is described as "still on the slender side of ordinary looking, with a bright, faintly haggard manner and dress" (174). Never married, she lives with her mother and aunt, and has received local derision for her romantic travails and, more recently, her drinking. Toward the end of the story she suffers a nervous breakdown in a movie theater.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 30 May 2012 20:18:39 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1688 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJudge Stevenshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/judge-stevens
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Stevenses are one of Jefferson's most prominent families, and other members of the family play major roles in a number of Yoknapatawpha fictions. Given his age, 80, and the approximate period during which he was that age, the late 19th century, the Judge Stevens in this story is probably the first Stevens to settle in Yoknapatawpha, and seems to have been Mayor of Jefferson around the same time that "Colonel" Sartoris was mayor as well.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:12:02 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1691 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Justice of the Peace 1http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-justice-peace-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Justice is a "shabby, collarless, graying man in spectacles," who holds makeshift court in a general store (4). He tries Ab for allegedly burning down Harris's barn. Described as having a "kindly" face, he discourages Harris from making young Sarty Snopes undergo questioning (4). While the Justice does not have enough evidence to convict Ab, he tells him: "I can't find against you, Snopes, but I can give you advice. Leave this country and don't come back to it" (5).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:37:31 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1692 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSarty Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sarty-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ten-year-old Colonel Sartoris "Sarty" Snopes is the focal character in "Barn Burning." The youngest of sharecropper Ab Snopes's four children, he is "small for his age, small and wiry like his father, in patched and faded jeans even too small for him, with straight, uncombed, brown hair and eyes gray and wild as storm scud" (4). Sarty is named for Colonel John Sartoris, a towering figure in Yoknapatawpha County lore.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:40:20 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1693 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNet Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/net-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Net is one of Sarty's older sisters. She and her unnamed twin are described as lazy, "big, bovine, in a flutter of cheap ribbons" (9). They do very little to help with household chores, leaving most of the work to their mother and aunt.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:45:41 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1694 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Snopes Twinhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-snopes-twin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sarty's unnamed older sister. She and her twin sister Net are described as lazy, "big, bovine, in a flutter of cheap ribbons" (9). They do very little to help with household chores, leaving most of the work to their mother and aunt.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:50:10 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1695 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFlem Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/flem-snopes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Flem Snopes, one of the major recurring figures in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fiction, plays only a minor role in "Barn Burning." In fact, he is never referred to by name. He appears only as Sarty's older brother and Ab's more willing accomplice.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:09:40 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1696 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHenry Hawkshawhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/henry-hawkshaw
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Jefferson barber, described as "a man of middle age; a thin, sand-colored man with a mild face" (169). His shop serves as the story's opening setting, and he serves as the point of view through which the story's racial violence is presented. Fearing for Will Mayes, whom he likes, yet unwilling to take an aggressive stand, Hawkshaw tags along with the lynch mob. He tries to talk the men out of doing anything until they learn more about what happened, but leaps out of McLendon's car before the lynching.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:48:02 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1699 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Barber 1http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-barber-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two other barbers in Hawkshaw's shop, who asks, "You reckon [Will Mayes] really done it to her?" (173).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:51:28 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1700 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Barber 2http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-barber-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two other barbers in Hawkshaw's shop, who repeatedly says, "Jees Christ" (1973).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:52:45 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1701 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJohn McLendonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/john-mclendon
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A decorated veteran of World War I and the leader of the lynch mob. He has a "heavy-set body" and an aggressive temperament (171). The story ends with McLendon returning to his "neat new house" (182), striking his wife, and retreating to their bedroom.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:54:10 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1702 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Drummerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drummer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An out-of-towner, described as looking like "a desert rat in the moving pictures," who gets his shave and haircut from Hawkshaw and enthusiastically joins the lynch mob (170).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:05:41 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1703 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduButchhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/butch
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "hulking youth in a sweat-stained silk shirt" who abrasively advocates vigilante action against Will Mayes (169). He ends up joining the lynch mob.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:07:02 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1704 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Clienthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-client
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the barber shop clients who debates whether to take vigilante action against Will Mayes. Unlike the "drummer" and the client who "had been a soldier" (172), he is not individualized in any particular way.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:08:15 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1705 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Ex-Soldierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-ex-soldier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the barber shop clients who debates whether to take vigilante action against Will Mayes. Like McLendon, "he too had been a soldier" in the First World War (172), and the narrator later refers to him as "the other ex-soldier" (176).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:09:12 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1706 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Sheriffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-sheriff
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mentioned by Hawkshaw ("Let's get the sheriff and do this thing right") but never appears in the story (172).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:18:09 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1707 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Cooperhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-cooper
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Not explicitly named, she is mentioned once as Minnie Cooper's "invalid mother," who lives with Minnie in "a small frame house" (173).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:20:03 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1708 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMinnie Cooper's Aunthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/minnie-coopers-aunt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Minnie Cooper's "thin, sallow, unflagging aunt," who lives with Minnie and her mother in a "small frame house" (173).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:24:33 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1709 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bank Cashierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bank-cashier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "widower of about forty - a high-colored man, smelling always of the barber shop or of whisky" who takes up with Minnie (174). He owns "the first automobile" in Jefferson, in which he and Minnie take drives, scandalizing the town (174). About four years after their relationship begins, he moves to Memphis, where he works in another bank and, according to Jefferson gossip, is "prospering" (175).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:31:29 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1714 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSoda Fountain Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/soda-fountain-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "youth" who supplies Minnie Cooper with bootleg whiskey (175).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:38:20 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1719 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWill Mayeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/will-mayes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An African-American man, the night watchman at the local ice plant, accused by Minnie Cooper of assault and lynched by a mob of Jefferson men. The lynching is not narrated. Although the barber says repeatedly that "I know Will Mayes" (169), and believes he is innocent, the narrative refers to him mostly as "the Negro" and does not describe him - his age or physical experience - extensively. Nor does story ever say what, if anything, happened between Will and Minnie.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:41:29 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1720 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. McLendonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-mclendon
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "pale, strained, and weary-looking" woman (182). Toward the end of the story her husband, John McLendon comes home at midnight, finds her reading a magazine, accuses her of waiting up for him, and strikes her.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:51:21 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1732 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Salesmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-salesmen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"[C]oatless drummers" who sit in "chairs along the curb" outside the hotel and watch Minnie Cooper as she passes through the courthouse square with her friends (180).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:01:29 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1733 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Young Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-young-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the young men who lounge in the doorway of the Jefferson drug store and lasciviously regard Minnie Cooper as she passes through the courthouse square with her friends (181).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:02:27 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1734 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Doctorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-doctor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Jefferson doctor whom Minnie Cooper's friends send for when she suffers a nervous breakdown in the movie theater. He is "hard to locate" (181).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:11:33 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1735 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLizziehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lizzie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sarty's Aunt Lizzie lives with the Snopes family. Lizzie is Lennie Snopes' sister. They have a close relationship, working together to complete household chores and to buy Sarty an axe for Christmas. Lizzie comforts Lennie through the difficulties of her marriage to the arsonist Ab. On the night Ab attempts to burn down de Spain's barn, Sarty's "mother and aunt sat side by side on the bed, the aunt's arms around his mother's shoulders" (22). Ab commands Lennie to restrain Sarty so that he cannot sound the alarm. Lizzie sides against Ab, telling Lennie: "Let him [Sarty] go! [. .</p></div></div></div>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:47:14 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1736 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Youthhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-youth
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A young African American man who accompanies Major de Spain in carrying the soiled rug to the sharecropper cabin where the Snopeses live.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:00:13 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1737 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Harrishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-harris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Harris is the irate landowner in the first general store in "Barn Burning." He is mad at Ab Snopes because the latter refuses to pen up his hog. When he keeps Ab's hog and demands a dollar for his return, Ab burns his barn, precipitating this encounter with the Justice of the Peace in the beginning of the story.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:12:11 +0000thagood@fau.edu1742 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAb Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ab-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the larger Yoknapatawpha saga, Abner Snopes is the patriarch of the Snopes family, the father of Flem. In "Barn Burning," he is a violent man embittered by the (decidedly unheroic) wound he got during the Civil War, when he was shot by "a Confederate provost's man" while trying to steal a horse (5), and by his years as a tenant farmer working for the wealthier white men who own the various fields he farms on shares. The wound leaves him with a limp. His experience as a tenant farmer leaves him with a smoldering resentment against his lot in life and the southern caste system that peri</p></div></div></div>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:21:50 +0000thagood@fau.edu1743 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Justice of the Peace 2http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-justice-peace-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed Justice of the Peace holds court at the second makeshift court session in a general store in "Barn Burning." He must determine whether or not twenty of bushels of corn is appropriate for Abner Snopes to pay for ruining Major de Spain's rug.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:33:04 +0000thagood@fau.edu1744 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLennie Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lennie-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lennie is Abner Snopes' wife. Although loyal to Abner, she tries to dissuade him from his vehement and destructive ways. For example, when he prepares to ruin the de Spain rug she actually speaks, saying "Abner. Abner. Please don't. Please, Abner" (14). Lennie is kind in her interactions with Sarty. Her sister's name is Lizzie.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:42:01 +0000thagood@fau.edu1745 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Messengerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-messenger
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A young African American man whom Abner Snopes sends to Mr. Harris to warn him that his barn will be burned. Although he does not appear in the story in person, Harris refers to him as a "strange nigger" (4), meaning a black man unknown to him.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:04:53 +0000thagood@fau.edu1746 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMajor de Spainhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/major-de-spain
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Major de Spain owns the land Abner Snopes works after he leaves Harris. The de Spains are another of Yoknapatawpha's aristocratic families, and a "Major de Spain" appears in a number of Faulkner's works. Figuring out the de Spain lineage, however, is almost impossible. This Major de Spain is probably Major Cassius de Spain, son of the Cassius de Spain who actually was a Confederate Major during the Civil War.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:11:11 +0000thagood@fau.edu1747 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLula de Spainhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lula-de-spain
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Major Cassius de Spain's wife. She is furious when Abner ruins her rug.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:43:53 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1748 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed House Servanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-house-servant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Major de Spain's house servant is "an old man with neat grizzled hair, in a linen jacket" (11). He tries to prevent Abner Snopes from entering the de Spain mansion: "Wipe yo foots, white man, fo you come in here. Major ain't home nohow" (11). At the end of the story, when Sarty bursts into the mansion to warn Major de Spain, the house servant is the first person that he encounters.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:59:16 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1749 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel John Sartoris left his mark on the county and its lore as a planter, Civil War hero, railroad tycoon, and politician. He is remembered with awe and reverence. Young Colonel Sartoris "Sarty" Snopes is named after this legendary patriarch of one of Yoknapatawpha's most important families. When the Justice of the Peace considers questioning Sarty about Ab's alleged barn burning, he remarks, "I reckon anyone named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" (4). </p></div></div></div>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:13:00 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1777 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBoard of Aldermen (1896)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/board-aldermen-1896
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Throughout the story Emily is visited by various delegations from the town's administrative class. There are two groups of Aldermen who visit her. This group, in 1896, drops by because the smell around her house has become a public nuisance. Unwilling to accuse a "lady" of "smelling bad," four of these men, "three graybeards and one younger man" (122), sneak onto her property after midnight and sprinkle lime into the cellar and all the outbuildings.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:02:09 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1781 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduOld Lady Wyatthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-lady-wyatt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Old Lady Wyatt is Emily's great-aunt, and reputed to have been crazy. The story simply says she went "completely crazy at last" (123), without further details. Presumably, she is related to Emily on her mother's side, because Wyatt and Emily's father had a falling out. She is also related to the Alabama kin.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:10:19 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1782 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Ministershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-ministers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Another one of the anonymous groups of townspeople, these "ministers" (123) show up at Emily's house with a group of doctors after her father's death to urge her to let go of her father's corpse.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:47:47 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1783 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Doctorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-doctors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Along with the ministers, this group of doctors show up to persuade Miss Emily to abandon her father's corpse.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:50:14 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1784 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Ladieshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-ladies
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Like a chorus, the phrase "the women" (119) or "the ladies" (124) is occasionally used to describe the general opinion of all the women in town . Presumably, this is not literally every woman, but rather the middle class women in good standing who function as the self-appointed representatives of the town's good name.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:00:28 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1785 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Kinfolkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-kinfolk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Emily's cousins from Alabama. It is not clear if they are from her father's or her mother's side.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:12:14 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1786 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Druggisthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-druggist
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The druggist reluctantly sells Emily arsenic. Like so many other men in the story, he seems unable to challenge a lady directly.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:36:54 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1787 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Delivery Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-delivery-boy-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He brings Emily the package of arsenic she purchased from the druggist.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:39:04 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1788 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Elks' Club Membershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-elks-club-members
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Homer Barron hangs out with these younger men of the local Elks' Club. (The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is a civic group that was originally founded in New York in 1868.)</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:45:04 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1789 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Baptist Ministerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-baptist-minister
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although Emily herself is an Episcopalian, this Baptist minister is "forced" by the "ladies" of Jefferson to pay her a pastoral visit rebuking her and Homer's public behavior; he "never divulges" what happened in when he confronted Emily, but he "refuses to go back" to her house again (126).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:51:19 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1790 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBaptist Minister's Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/baptist-ministers-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When her husband fails to change Emily's behavior with Homer, his unnamed and undescribed wife writes to summon Emily's Alabama kin.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:53:12 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1791 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jewelerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jeweler
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Emily buys a man's toilet set with the letters H.B. from him.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:57:27 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1792 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Dead Union Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-dead-union-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnamed Union soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson lie in "the cedar-bemused cemetery" in "ranked and anonymous graves" (119).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:02:05 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1802 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Dead Confederate Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-dead-confederate-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnamed Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson lie in "the cedar-bemused cemetery" in "ranked and anonymous graves" (119).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:03:18 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1803 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Griersonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-grierson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Grierson is referred to first in the context of Emily's visit to the mayor's office. He is an old-fashioned, over-bearing patriarch who does not allow his daughter to mingle with any men, and he keeps all possible suitors at bay.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:14:32 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1807 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBoard of Aldermen (1911)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/board-aldermen-1911
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the "next generation, with its more modern ideas" (120) who lead Jefferson in the early 20th century, in particular the "deputation" of Alderman who pay a call on Emily Grierson to tell her that there is no record that her taxes had ever been remitted. Their unnamed spokesman is polite but firm, though his courteousness is soundly defeated by her intransigence.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:23:00 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1809 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Neighbor Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-neighbor-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed woman, a neighbor of Emily Grierson, calls the mayor to complain about the smell emanating from Emily's house.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:54:03 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1816 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Townspeoplehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-townspeople
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is a generic label for the townspeople, who often appear in the story as a group - as when in the story's very first sentence the narrator refers to "our whole town" (119). They are fond of gossip and quick to make moral judgments. Given the way they enjoy the discomfiture of the haughty Griersons, they seem mainly middle class. The descriptions of "their" actions and opinions suggests a homogeneous group, one that implictly excludes the town's African American population.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:32:30 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1823 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Construction Workershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-construction-workers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This crew of Negro men come from out of town to pave Jefferson's sidewalks; the "singing" they do "in time to the rise and fall of the picks" [pick-axes] they swing is a source of entertainment to the town boys (124).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:53:01 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1827 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Girlshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-girls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These young ladies, the "daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries," are the students to whom Emily teaches the decorative art of "china-painting" (128).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:49:59 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu1849 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Narratorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-narrator
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A Rose for Emily" is a first-person narrative, but the identity of its narrator is very hard to establish. Our icon represents him as a white man, but given the way he refers to the differing actions and motives of "the men" and "the women" with equal detachment (119, etc.), "he" could just as easily be a "she." The narrator's age is equally elusive, given the equally detached way "he" talks about "Colonel Sartoris' generation" and "the next generation" (120, etc.).</p></div></div></div>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:29:13 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu1868 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Movie-Goershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-movie-goers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the young men and women in the audience at the movie theater where Minnie Cooper and her friends go. These young couples are described as "scented and sibilant in the half dark, their paired backs in silhouette delicate and sleek, their slim, quick bodies awkward, divinely young" (181).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:52:27 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1879 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Girlshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jefferson-girls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the young women of Jefferson, "with their delicate, silken heads and thin, awkward arms and conscious arms" (175), who stroll downtown in the afternoon when Minnie Cooper goes out alone. The narrative calls them "cousins" of Minnie Cooper, using quotation marks to indicate that they are not actual relatives.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:58:59 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1881 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Neighborshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-neighbors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the group of female neighbors of Minnie Cooper who occasionally go to an evening film with her and constitute her only remaining social contacts. Toward the end of the story they walk with her through Jefferson on the way to the movie theater, where Minnie suffers a nervous breakdown.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:05:52 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu1882 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Hecklerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-heckler
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This youth shouts "Barn Burner!" at Ab, Flem, and Sarty Snopes after the trial. He and Sarty fight. Sarty "could not see, whirling; there was a face in a red haze, moonlike, bigger than the full moon, the owner of it half again his size. . ." (6).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:08:42 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu1884 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Blacksmithhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-blacksmith
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although Ab Snopes has his wagon worked on at the blacksmith shop across the road from the story's second general store, all we see the smith himself doing is "talking or listening" with Snopes and "a third man," about "crops and animals" and Snopes' earlier life as a horsetrader.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:30:54 +0000sfr1907 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Countrymanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-countryman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to only as the "third man" along with Ab Snopes and the unnamed blacksmith, he "squat[s] on his heels" in rural fashion while taking part in their unnarrated, desultory conversation about "crops and animals."</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:35:48 +0000sfr1908 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men at Horse Lothttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-horse-lot
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the unnamed men who sit upon or stand along the "tall rail fence" beside the horse lot next to the general store and blacksmith's shop, who spend the Saturday afternoon unhurriedly "swapping and buying" horses.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:40:16 +0000sfr1909 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Neighbor Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-neighbor-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the man who protests, "in diffident deprecation" (122), that the town must do something about the smell coming from the Grierson house.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:03:29 +0000sfr1913 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCandace Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/candace-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Candace "Caddy" Compson is the younger sister of Quentin Compson and the older sister of Jason Compson (brother Benjy Compson, with whom she has a close relationship in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>, does not appear in "That Evening Sun" ). She enjoys teasing Jason about being scared of the dark and commanding Nancy to work, an early expression of her brassy and intrepid personality that in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> will lead her away from the Compson Place, Jefferson, and finally, the United States.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:54:29 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu1918 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWash Joneshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/wash-jones
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Gaunt and malaria-ridden, Wash Jones emerges as a furious underdog figure. A poor and jobless squatter, he lives with his granddaughter Milly in Thomas Sutpen's “crazy shack” on a slough in the river bottom of Sutpen’s land. During the Civil War, he was one of the few remaining white men in Yoknapatawpha between 18-50 who did not enlist in the war, and he was often teased because of it. When Sutpen returned from the war, Wash helped him manage a country store, which also meant Wash had to care for Sutpen when he was drunk.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:19:00 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu1940 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartoris' Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"John Sartoris' mother" is never named, and mentioned only once in the novel, when the colored glass that adorns a door in the Sartoris mansion is described as her "deathbed legacy to her son" (10). It is her daughter Jenny who carries the glass from Carolina to Yoknapatawpha, in 1869.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:22:39 +0000sfr1943 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Popehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-pope
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In April, 1862, when J.E.B. Stuart's raiding party supposedly visits his camp in Virginia, General John Pope would in fact have been in Mississippi. But based on his success there, he was brought east and promoted to command of the Union Army of Virginia soon afterwards. He lost that position after losing decisively in September, 1862, to Lee's troops at the Second Battle of Bull Run.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:47:27 +0000sfr1946 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJ.E.B. Stuart's Slavehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jeb-stuarts-slave
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Described as "the General's body servant," this unnamed slave provides a kind of sound track to Aunt Jenny's story of Stuart and Carolina Bayard as "two angels valiantly fallen" as he strums a "guitar in lingering random chords" at the Confederate unit's camp (12).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:51:50 +0000sfr1947 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHillman from Frenchman's Bendhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hillman-frenchmans-bend
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The house that the Mitchells live in was built, the novel's narrator tells us, by "a hillman who moved in [to Jefferson] from a small settlement called Frenchman's Bend" (24).</p></div></div></div>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:24:20 +0000sfr1950 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Country Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-country-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The anonymous hillman who moves into Jefferson and builds the house Belle Mitchell lives in came to town with his unnamed and unenumerated "women-folks" (24). In their new lives these women obviously attempt to live like "ladies": they spend the mornings sitting on the veranda and the afternoons riding about wearing "colored silks." But after two years, they return to Frenchman's Bend and, the narrator speculates, their original "poor white" identities.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:29:45 +0000sfr1951 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduYoung Bayard's Memphis Friendshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/young-bayards-memphis-friends
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In her account of the wedding and newlywed life Bayard and Caroline live in Memphis, Miss Jenny mentions "the [aviation] pupils of Bayard's" and his "soldier friends" whom she sees. Like their wives, whom Jenny calls "Young women who ought to have been at home," these are all obviously members of the same "lost" generation as Bayard (51).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:49:11 +0000sfr1952 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAnonymous White American Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/anonymous-white-american-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various unnamed white soldiers whom Caspey mentions in his highly fictionalized account of his experiences in France during World War I. Many of them are "M.P"s, but he also refers to "white officers" and the "white boys" with whom he shares a trench about four miles behind the front lines (60).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:12:28 +0000sfr1958 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed German Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-german-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various German combatants -- "about thirty" sailors from a submarine (58) and "a whole regiment of Germans" swimming in a river (59) -- whom Caspey says were killed by him and other black soldiers in his highly fictionalized account of his experiences at the Great War.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:17:29 +0000sfr1959 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduThree Unnamed Slaveshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/three-unnamed-slaves
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As part of the narrator's account of the parlor in the Sartoris mansion, he mentions "three negroes with stringed instruments on the stairway," who provided the music at the many dinners and occasional balls that Colonel John held in the room (55).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:29:55 +0000sfr1961 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Woman Morale Workerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-woman-morale-worker
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The icon represents the woman whom Caspey calls "one of dese army upliftin' ladies" when he describes meeting her on an abandoned battle field (61). During the War, omen volunteered to give aid and comfort to the American doughboys through a variety of organizations, including the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the YMCA. All we are told about this woman is that she was looking for souvenirs, "German bayonets and belt-buckles."</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:41:32 +0000sfr1963 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Bayard Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-bayard-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Old Bayard's wife, the grandmother of Young Bayard and Young John Sartoris, is never named, and mentioned only in passing as part of the narrative's history of the parlor in the Sartoris mansion over the decades. We're told that she and her daughter-in-law and Miss Jenny clean the room "thoroughly" twice a year. There are exactly two words devoted to her: "his wife" (55).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:50:33 +0000sfr1964 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSpirits of Old Southhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/spirits-old-south
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the ghostly presences that, according to the narrator, still haunt the darkened and seldom-used parlor at the Sartoris plantation house: "figures in crinoline and hooped muslin and silk," and "in gray too, with crimson sashes and sabres" (56). They seem to be conjured up by Narcissa Benbow's piano playing.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:00:56 +0000sfr1967 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Carnival Balloonisthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-carnival-balloonist
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This carnival employee is mentioned in Narcissa&#039;s account of the time Johnny Sartoris flew over Yoknapatawpha in a balloon. John does that when ptomaine poisoning makes the man to ill to fly the balloon himself.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:48:32 +0000sfr1974 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Driving Wagonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-driving-wagon
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the "negro in a passing wagon" who gives Young John Sartoris a lift back toward town after John crashes the hot air balloon he took up (68).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:00:36 +0000sfr1976 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Country Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-country-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "young man" who moves from the country into Jefferson during World War I is identified as "steady" and "exemplary," poor but with "a desire to get on" (72). He has a wife, who is pregnant with their third child, when he is drafted and sent overseas, where he serves as "a company cook in the S.O.S." [Supply Service]. In his absence the Red Cross and Narcissa Benbow "took charge of the family."</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:10:32 +0000sfr1981 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Country Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-country-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed woman is pregnant again when she moves from the countryside into Jefferson with her husband and two children. Her baby is born after her husband had been drafted and shipped overseas, but is helped by the Red Cross and Narcissa Benbow.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:14:19 +0000sfr1982 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTwo Unnamed Country Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/two-unnamed-country-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The two "infant children" in the "family of country people" that moves into Jefferson during the First World War (72). Since their mother is pregnant again, "infant" presumably means something like "less than three years old."</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:17:07 +0000sfr1983 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Newborn Childhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-newborn-child
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The child (neither name nor gender is mentioned) who is born into the "family of country people" who are living in Jefferson and being looked after by the Red Cross and Narcissa Benbow (72).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:20:34 +0000sfr1984 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Town Ladyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-town-lady
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mentioned only in passing, she is the charitable "old lady of the town" in whose automobile the wife and children of the "family of country people" (also unnamed) take their husband and father to the train station, from which he leaves for the War (72).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:27:04 +0000sfr1985 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boarders at Beard Hotelhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boarders-beard-hotel
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Only men ever use the rooms at the Beard hotel, but they come for various reasons: traveling salesmen, jurors from out of town, weather-stranded countrymen, even two "town young bloods" who keep a room as a place for gambling. Besides Byron Snopes, some - bachelors identified as "clerks, mechanics and such" - live there more permanently (104).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:26:02 +0000sfr1992 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Children Playinghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-children-playing
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents four different groups: (1) The children playing in the street whom Bayard, riding the wild stallion, swerves to avoid running into; only one is individualized: "a small figure in a white shirt and diminutive pale blue pants" (130). (2) The "neighbors' children" who play "quietly" among the flowers and trees on the lawn at the Benbow house (164). (3) The children playing "quietly and a little stiffly" in the cemetery that Jenny and Isom visit at the end of the novel (399). All these groups appear in Jefferson.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:28:59 +0000sfr2003 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAnonymous Negro Yardmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/anonymous-negro-yardmen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the two unnamed black men whom Bayard, trying to avoid a white child, swerves toward on his wild stallion ride through Jefferson. Since one is "playing a hose on the sidewalk" and the other is holding "a pitchfork," it seems safe to identify them as yardmen working for one of the white families who live on this "quiet" street (130). They are not injured, though Bayard is when the horse slips on the wet concrete; the "negro with the pitchfork" drives the stallion away from Bayard's fallen body.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:35:38 +0000sfr2004 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNancyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/nancy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Nancy is a laundress who lives in Negro Hollow and substitutes as a cook for the Compsons when Dilsey is sick. "She was tall, with a high, sad face sunken a little where her teeth were missing" (290). She is pregnant and suspects that the father is Mr Stovall, who kicks her teeth out when she berates him in public for withholding the money he owes her for sex. She is beaten by the jailer as well after she is arrested and tries to hang herself. In her desperation, Nancy believes that the greatest threat to her life is her husband Jesus, from whom she seeks the protection of the Compsons.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:56:02 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2010 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel Sutpenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-sutpen-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sutpen is called "Colonel Sutpen" by the narrator (536), "Kernel" by Wash Jones (538), and "Cunnel" by his slaves, but nowhere in the story is he given a first name. When he returns as the central character in Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> (1936), he is Thomas Sutpen. Both these men own large plantations in Yoknapatawpha, both were Confederate officers in the Civil War, earning citations from Robert E. Lee, both are obsessed with producing a male heir, both have a female child with the poor white Milly Jones and are killed by her grandfather.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:16:58 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2011 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMilly Joneshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/milly-jones
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Milly is Wash Jones' granddaughter. She catches Sutpen's romantic attention when she is fifteen. Sutpen impregnates her, but he will not marry her until the child's gender proves to be male. She gives birth to a daughter, which causes Sutpen to dismiss her and the baby.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:49:48 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2012 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMilly Jones's Infanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/milly-joness-infant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This girl was born on an unspecified Sunday in 1869, denied by her father and murdered by her great-grandfather on the same day.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:04:31 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2013 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDiceyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dicey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is the midwife who delivers Milly's baby. She flees when Wash Jones murders Sutpen.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:15:22 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2014 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed English Architecthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-english-architect
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Identified only as "an English architect of the '40s" (e.g. the 1840s, 163), he is the person who built the Benbow house in Jefferson, and laid out the large lawn and drive between it and the street.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:29:13 +0000sfr2016 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVenetian Glassmakershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/venetian-glassmakers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Horace Benbow's description of the glass-making craftsmen he saw in the caves of Venice is suitably romantic: "At first they're just shapeless things . . . shadows on the bloody walls . . . And then a face comes out, blowing . . ." (165).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:48:20 +0000sfr2019 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Flem Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-flem-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although mentioned only in passing, when the narrator says that Flem Snopes once lived in a tent with "his wife and baby" when he first came to Jefferson (166), this character - nee Eula Varner - will play a major role in both <em>The Hamlet</em> and <em>The Town</em>, and become one of the major female figures in the Yoknapatawpha fiction.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:59:07 +0000sfr2020 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFlem Snopes' Childhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/flem-snopes-child
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mentioned only as Flem Snopes' "baby" (166), with neither a name nor a gender, this character will become a major figure in the three novels of the Snopes Trilogy (where readers learn that she is not, in fact, Flem's child).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:15:08 +0000sfr2021 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHalf-Grown White Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/half-grown-white-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This white boy finds the body of Thomas Sutpen. Recognizing that Sutpen was murdered, he flees the scene and reports the crime and its location to the proper authorities of Jefferson.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:29:07 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2022 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMajor de Spainhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/major-de-spain-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Major de Spain served in the Confederate War as a Major. He and his wife Lula had two sons, Major Cassius II and Manfred. He appears in this story as the Sheriff of Yoknapatawpha County. In <em>Go Down, Moses</em> readers learn that he - or his son; while characters called "Major de Spain" appear in a number of Yoknapatawpha fictions, the de Spain genealogy is impossible to pin down - bought and restored the fishing cabin after Wash was executed. He also came to be the proprietor of the old Sutpen plantation.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:30:43 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2023 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed English Servanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-english-servant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "servant" who "methodically" packs up Horace Benbow's possessions as he is getting ready to leave Oxford to return to America is not named (178).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:12:05 +0000sfr2028 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Son of Carpenterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-son-carpenter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Though this anonymous "youth" mentioned only in one paragraph, a number of intriguing details are attached to him. Despite his blue-collar origin, Belle Mitchell decides to "make a poet" of him, sending him to New Orleans presumably as part of that process. Here the similarities with William Faulkner's biography stop; a "conscientious objector," the start of the war prompts him to move to Texas where he "now serve[s] in a reportorial capacity" (181-82).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:38:27 +0000sfr2034 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Merchanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jefferson-merchant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the anonymous "merchant" in town whom Pappy and John Henry tell about Young Bayard's accident; the merchant, in turn, tells Old Bayard.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:07:00 +0000sfr2041 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWill Falls' Grandmotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/will-falls-grandmother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed woman is, according to Will Falls, his source for the ointment with which he is treating Old Bayard's wen: "My granny got that 'ere from a Choctaw woman nigh a hundred and thutty year ago" (227).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:30:33 +0000sfr2044 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Choctaw Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-choctaw-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only native American character mentioned in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, this "Choctaw woman" gave Will Falls' grandmother the recipe for an ointment "nigh a hundred and thutty years ago" (227). That would be around 1790, at which time the Choctaw was one of the major tribes living in the southeastern U.S, including Mississippi. Most of the tribe was "removed" to Oklahoma via the Trail of Tears in the 1830s, but a small number were allowed to remain in Mississippi.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:35:43 +0000sfr2045 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negresshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negress
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Negress" is not a term the narrator uses for any other female Negro, so it's not clear why he uses it the one time he mentions the black maid at the Beard boarding house. She is helping Mrs. Beard serve breakfast at the boarding house. She is also described as "slatternly" (324).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:22:49 +0000sfr2051 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Clarence Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-clarence-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "placid mountain of a woman," Clarence Snopes' wife spends her days in the porch swing of their "small frame house" - "not doing anything: just swinging" (235).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:28:26 +0000sfr2052 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSutpen's Daughterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sutpens-daughter-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel Sutpen's "daughter" is only mentioned once in the story (539), and not named at all (in <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>, where she plays a crucial role in the plot, her name is Judith). Unlike her mother and brother, she is still alive at the end of the Civil War.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:44:28 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2076 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Shermanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-sherman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the Civil War, Sherman served as a General in the Union army. In February, 1864, he passed through Meridian and Jackson, Mississippi. This is when Faulkner places him as passing through Sutpen's plantation. Sherman's fiery march through the South led to the South's defeat.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:25:01 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2077 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Male Slaveshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-male-slaves
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are the black slaves who are described as laughing at Wash for remaining in Yoknapatawpha during the Civil War. They would make fun of him with the question "Why ain't you at de war, white man?" (537). "Most" of Sutpen's slaves leave to follow the Union army toward freedom after "Sherman passes through the plantation" (537).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:35:41 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2078 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Sutpenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-sutpen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Mrs. Sutpen" is barely mentioned in "Wash," though readers learn that she died during the Civil War, in the same winter that Sutpen's son was killed in action. In <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>, she is identified as the daughter of Jefferson's merchant Goodhue Coldfield and the sister of Rosa Coldfield.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:48:58 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2079 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoan Heppleton's First Husbandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joan-heppletons-first-husband
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mentioned a couple times, briefly, in the history of her "lovers" that Joan Heppleton provides for Horace Benbow, this man (probably not named "Heppleton," but not otherwise named) was in his fifties when she married him at eighteen. Together they went to Hawaii just before or during the First World I; after she left him for another man, they divorced and he "made a settlement on her" (322).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:04:47 +0000sfr2100 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoan Heppleton's English Loverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joan-heppletons-english-lover
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the man for whom Joan Heppleton leaves her husband and goes to Australia. While living there she assumed his name, but since she married again later that name might not have been Heppleton. The narrator sums his character up by saying "no Englishman out of his native island has any honor about women" (321); at some point the pair went to India, were he deserted Joan in Bombay.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:09:09 +0000sfr2101 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoan Heppleton's Second Husbandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joan-heppletons-second-husband
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Identified only as "young," "American," and an "employee of the Standard oil company," he and Joan Heppleton are married for one year, presumably living in Calcutta where she meets him (321). At the end of that time they are divorced.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:12:28 +0000sfr2102 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed American Infantryman(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-american-infantryman1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "fellow recruit" who calls Buddy MacCallum "Virge" during their training at a camp in Arkansas; in response Buddy fights him "without anger" for "seven minutes" (355).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:20:44 +0000sfr2103 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed American Infantryman(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-american-infantryman2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The fellow soldier who calls Buddy MacCallum "Virge" at the New Jersey port from which they are shipping out for the War. As he had done once before, in Arkansas, Buddy responds by fighting him "steadily and thoroughly and without anger" (355).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:24:33 +0000sfr2104 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Assistant Provost Marshallhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-assistant-provost-marshall
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This very peripheral character figures in one of Monaghan's anecdotes about his experiences with Bayard Sartoris in World War I as the "A.P.M." whose whistle Comyn took and used to start a melee in an Amiens night club called the Cloche-Clos (387). The Provost Marshalls ran the army's military police.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:22:17 +0000sfr2132 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Australian Captainhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-australian-captain
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is mentioned by Monaghan, who says that during the War Young Bayard "knocked two teeth" out of this "Australian captain" in a fight over a girl in a "London joint" (385). This officer's role closely resembles that of the unnamed Australian officer Bayard tells Rafe MacCallum about much earlier in the novel, but that officer was a major, and the nightclub was in Leicester.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:27:22 +0000sfr2133 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Girl in Londonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-girl-london
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "girl" accompanies Bayard Sartoris to a "dive" in London while he is in England training as an aviator. She becomes the occasion for one of Bayard's barroom fights when an Australian captain "just trie[s] to speak to" her (385).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:30:54 +0000sfr2134 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduQuentin Compson IIIhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/quentin-compson-iii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The eldest son of one of the leading families in Yoknapatawpha, Quentin is a major character in two of Faulkner's major novels, <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> (1929) and <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> (1936). Nine years old in the events of this story, Quentin developed a close bond with Nancy, one of his family's domestic servants.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:41:25 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu2153 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPresident Abraham Lincoln http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/president-abraham-lincoln
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He freed the slaves. John Wilkes Booth assassinated him just after the Civil War ended.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:15:28 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2169 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSutpen's Sonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sutpens-son-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel Sutpen's "son" is only mentioned twice in the story (538), and never given a first name (in <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> his name is Henry). The story's plot suggests that he is Sutpen's only male child. He was "killed in action" during the Civil War (538).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:17:35 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2170 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRiderhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/rider
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rider is described by both of the story’s narrators as powerful, even superhuman in his strength, “better than six feet and weigh[ing] better than two hundred pounds” (238). At 24 he is the head of a timber gang at the mill, and he rents a cabin from Carothers Edmonds. Although “Spoot” is “the name he had gone by in childhood and adolescence” and the one used by his aunt (249), the name he later assumes, “Rider,” is also a nickname, given to him by “the men he worked with and the bright dark nameless women he had taken in course” (249).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:37:59 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2201 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMembers of Sawmill Ganghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/members-sawmill-gang
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rider is the head of "a mill gang" at the sawmill (239). These other Negroes attend Mannie's funeral, and several of them try to help him in his grief. Presumably some of them are also among the workers who shoot dice after hours at the mill.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:59:45 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2202 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAceyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/acey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Acey is a member of Rider's mill gang who is present at Mannie's funeral, and he offers comfort in the form of company and “a jug in de bushes” (239).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:18:31 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2203 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduManniehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mannie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mannie is described as having a “narrow back” and “narrow” hand (241). Rider indicates that she is far slighter than her powerfully built husband: “You’s de onliest least thing whut ever kep up wid me one day, leff alone for weeks” (241). She is present in the story in memories, traces of footprints in the road, the “clean overalls which Mannie herself had washed only a week ago” that Rider wears to her funeral (238), and a brief, ghostly presence that Rider sees upon returning home after Mannie’s burial.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:23:08 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2204 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mourners at Mannie’s Funeralhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mourners-mannie%E2%80%99s-funeral
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The African Americans who gather at Mannie's funeral are “the meager clump of [Rider's] kin and friends and a few old people who had known him and his dead wife both since they were born” as well as the men Rider works with at the mill (238).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:27:54 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2205 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRider's Aunthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/riders-aunt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is a constant presence both in Rider’s life and in the text: “She was his aunt. She had raised him. He could not remember his parents at all” (238). Several other characters, including her husband and members of Rider’s mill gang, are referred to as her messengers, as she makes repeated efforts to rein in Rider’s self-destructive bent by encouraging him to turn to family and to religion.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:30:42 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2206 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Women in Rider's Lifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-women-riders-life
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are the sexual partners who filled Rider’s life before he met Mannie: “the women bright and dark and for all purposes nameless he didn’t need to buy” (240).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:38:58 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2208 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCarothers Edmondshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/carothers-edmonds
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Edmonds rents a cabin to Rider and Mannie after their marriage, though unlike most of the blacks who live on the McCaslin property, Rider does not work for Edmonds as a tenant farmer. Edmonds is notable here for tying Rider and “Pantaloon” to the McCaslin family narrative that fills <em>Go Down, Moses</em>, where “Pantaloon” later appears and in which readers learn much more about Edmonds’s life.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:20:22 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2209 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLucas Beauchamphttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lucas-beauchamp
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lucas’s life and family history are outlined in great detail in <em>Go Down, Moses</em>. He is the child of Tomey’s Turl and Tennie Beauchamp, and his grandfather is the white patriarch Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin. When he married Mollie (also known as Molly) Worsham in 1896, he lit a fire in the hearth on their wedding night, where it burns for the duration of their long marriage, and it is this gesture that Rider repeats upon marrying Mannie.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:35:22 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2210 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFireman at the Sawmillhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/fireman-sawmill
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The fireman who keeps the fire burning at the sawmill is described as “an older man” (243). The narrative from his perspective makes evident just how much of a sight Rider is after a night running through the woods (243).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:49:32 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2212 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMcAndrewshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mcandrews
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For much of the story, McAndrews is identified as “the white foreman” at the sawmill where Rider works (244), and he is the first identified white character to appear in the story. Only in the deputy sheriff’s retelling of events is McAndrews referred to by name.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:57:30 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2213 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLovelady's Daughterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/loveladys-daughter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Lovelady's daughter is mentioned in passing in "That Evening Sun." She is described as a "child, a little girl," who lives in the hotel with her father and mother (308). When her mother dies, though, Lovelady "and the child went away. After a week or two he came back alone" (308). We learn nothing more about her fate.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:19:20 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu2214 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJailerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jailer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The jailer works in the Jefferson County Jail. He cuts Nancy down when she tries to hang herself in jail and then beats her.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:03:44 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu2215 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAunt Rachelhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/aunt-rachel
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Aunt Rachel lives in Negro Hollow. According to the story, she is "old. She lived in a cabin beyond Nancy's, by herself. She had white hair and smoked a pipe in the door, all day long; she didn't work any more. They said she was Jesus' mother. Sometimes she said she was and sometimes she said she wasn't any kin to Jesus" (294). Early in "That Evening Sun" Jason Compson III suggests that Aunt Rachel may be able to help Nancy with Jesus. Later he suggests that Nancy may be able to stay at Aunt Rachel's cabin.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:19:21 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu2216 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAlechttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/alec
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Alec is described as “an old man as tall as [Rider] was, but lean, almost frail” (245). His name is withheld early in the text, where he is simply described as “[Rider’s] aunt’s husband.”</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:56:44 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2217 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Moonshinerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-moonshiner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is described as “an unshaven white man” standing at the door of “a hut, a hovel” in the river swamp (246). He is repeatedly referred to as “the white man” during the exchange with Rider.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:02:52 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2218 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Gamblers http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-gamblers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are six or seven men who work with Rider, three from his timber gang and three or four from the mill crew, who are shooting craps with the white nightwatchman's dice in the tool-room at the back of the mill’s boiler shed (250).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:14:18 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2219 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBirdsonghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/birdsong
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is the white night-watchman at the mill and has run a “crooked dice” game for fifteen years in which he cheats the black mill workers out of some of their weekly pay. He is part of a large family clan; as the deputy sheriff says, “It’s more of them Birdsongs than just two or three. . . . There’s forty-two active votes in that connection” (252). Birdsong is repeatedly referred to in the narrative as “the white man” who carries a “heavy pistol in his hip pocket” (250-51).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:26:57 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2220 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Lynchershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-lynchers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The coroner makes an official pronouncement of Rider’s death “at the hands of a person or persons unknown” (252), though the deputy's narration strongly indicates that the lynchers are members of the Birdsong clan.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:36:47 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2221 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCoronerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/coroner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He appears only in passing, when he pronounces Rider’s cause of death and returns the body to Rider’s relatives.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:41:01 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2222 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSheriff's Deputyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sheriffs-deputy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed deputy recounts the entire second half of “Pantaloon,” but much of the language used to characterize him serves to undermine his authority. He is “spent” and “a little hysterical too” after the manhunt for Rider (252), and his wife declines to serve as a rapt audience for his storytelling. Instead, she offers the narrative’s only portrait of the deputy sheriff: “You sheriffs! Sitting around that courthouse all day long talking. It’s no wonder two or three men can walk in and take prisoners out from under your noses.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:52:31 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2223 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDeputy Sheriff's Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/deputy-sheriffs-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is described as “a stout woman, handsome once, graying now and with a neck definitely too short, who looked not harried at all but choleric” (252). She is impatient with her husband, the deputy sheriff, and preoccupied with her own concerns; her rapid movements between kitchen and dining room suggest her lack of interest in her husband's account of a black man's lynching.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:57:21 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2224 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSheriff Mayfieldhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sheriff-mayfield
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mayfield is repeatedly mentioned in connection with the votes required to keep him in office.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:03:09 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2225 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduKetchamhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ketcham
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ketcham is another lawman, and he is at the jail to maintain order among the inmates when Rider is brought there.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:22:22 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2226 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Members of Chain Ganghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-members-chain-gang
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The chain gang members are described in crude burlesque terms as they are forced by the white deputy to restrain Rider in the jailhouse, “a big mass of nigger arms and heads and legs boiling around on the floor” (255).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:25:14 +0000ekp23@cornell.edu2227 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFrony Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/frony-gibson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Frony is the daughter of Dilsey and the sister of T.P. She works for the Compson's family and lives in a cabin in their property.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:50:45 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu2233 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJason Compson IVhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jason-compson-iv
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jason Compson IV is five years old, the youngest of the Compson children. He is also the most querulous, manipulative, and insensitive. When Dilsey is sick and the children go get Nancy to prepare their breakfast, Jason says, "I bet you're drunk. . .Father says you're drunk. Are you drunk, Nancy?" (290). When Nancy is worried about Jesus, he says "I ain't a nigger. . .Are you a nigger, Nancy?" (298). Later, he says that he will only stop crying if Dilsey makes him a chocolate cake.</p></div></div></div>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:08:06 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu2234 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJason Compson IIIhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jason-compson-iii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jason Compson III is the heir of one of Jefferson's founding families, which suffers financial hardship and general decline over the course of his lifetime. In "That Evening Sun," he is still a young man, and he seems less fatalistic than in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> or <em>Absalom, Absalom! </em> He shows more concern for Nancy's situation than his wife does, and one senses that he would do more to help Nancy if it weren't for her. Still, he is dismissive of Nancy's concerns about Jesus and treats her like a child.</p></div></div></div>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:31:32 +0000sek4q@virginia.edu2235 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDilsey Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dilsey-gibson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Dilsey cooks and cares for the Compson family and lives in a cabin on the Compson Place with her husband and children. After she recovers from her illness, she sits with Nancy in the kitchen of the Compson house, asks Nancy about her fears, suggests that she ask Mr Jason to "telefoam the marshall," and invites Nancy to spend the night in her cabin (297-298).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:03:41 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2250 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJesushttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jesus
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jesus, Nancy's husband, is described as "a short black man, with a razor scar down his face." He has been missing since he threatened Nancy in the kitchen of the Compson house, saying that he might kill the white man responsible for her pregnancy ("I can cut down the vine it did come off of," 292). Nancy believes that Jesus went to Memphis but has returned to do her harm. While Jesus directly appears only once, the story is haunted by the possibility of his return.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:29:57 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2251 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVershhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/versh
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Versh is mentioned only once in the story, when Dilsey tries to help Nancy "get aholt of" herself and offers "to get Versh to walk home with" her (300). The story provides no information about Versh, who appears as a member of Dilsey's family in <em>The Sound and The Fury</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:08:53 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2254 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLovelady's Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/loveladys-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Lovelady is mentioned as a suicide. After her suicide, Mr. Lovelady, the Negro insurance collector, abandons their only child, a little girl (308).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:25:54 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2255 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduChick Mallisonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/chick-mallison
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Chick Mallison is the nephew of Gavin Stevens, a Jefferson attorney who is one of Faulkner's favorite characters. Chick himself appears often throughout Faulkner's texts, beginning with the <em>Knight's Gambit</em>'s stories, and on through many of Faulkner's texts from the 1940s and 1950s. As a Stevens, he belongs to one of the old upper class Jefferson families.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 May 2013 20:26:59 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2373 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGavin Stevenshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/gavin-stevens
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Gavin Stevens is a lawyer, working and living in Jefferson. Throughout much of Faulkner's work Gavin is depicted as a bachelor, fond of small talk, often pretentious, on the porches of stores in town. It is often noted that Gavin studied at Harvard and Heidelberg, graduating with a law degree from "the state university" (presumably Ole Miss).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 May 2013 20:32:33 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2374 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Boy) Grierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/boy-grier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Res Grier's younger son is never given a first name, although he appears in three different short stories, narrating each in somewhat differing voices. Here, he watches his father closely, obeys him as best he can, and tells the story in dialect and detail, with implicit love and humor.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:22:28 +0000sfr2377 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduReverend Whitfieldhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/reverend-whitfield
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Whitfield is a much more attractive figure in this story than in <em>As I Lay Dying</em>, the text by which most readers know him. The magisterial Baptist minister makes his wishes plain to the Almighty in prayer and to his parishioners, such as Res Grier, by chastising them.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:27:41 +0000sfr2379 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSolon Quickhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/solon-quick
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A small farmer, Quick also drives the "school-bus truck" (27) - a bus he made by customizing the body of a truck - that takes the children of Frenchman's Bend to school during the week and the people of Frenchman's Bend to town on Saturdays. He thinks he's learned a few trick from the President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration that will help him make a new deal for himself, but he has a threatening opponent in Res Grier.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:30:23 +0000sfr2380 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Grierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-grier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator's "Maw" seems always to know the immediate and long-term needs of the people around her. In this story, she nurses her husband with liniment and toddy.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:32:43 +0000sfr2381 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHomer Bookwrighthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/homer-bookwright
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He's mostly a silent observer of the proceedings, but he's definitely an integral part of Quick's calculations.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:34:38 +0000sfr2382 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVernon Tullhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/vernon-tull-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On offstage figure in this tale, Vernon Tull is a Frenchman Bend farmer who reappears fairly often in Faulkner's fiction. The way he is characterized in the story should not necessarily be equated with the figure from the novels. Res Grier and Solon Quick run their contest through him.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:37:27 +0000sfr2383 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduArmstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/armstid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A silent member of the group of people who gather at the church the morning after it burns down, he is identified only by his last name. But it's likely that Faulkner is thinking of Henry Armstid, an important character in "Spotted Horses" and <em>The Hamlet</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:43:33 +0000sfr2384 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Armstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-armstid-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While Faulkner does not give Mrs. Armstid a first name in this story, elsewhere he gives her two different ones. She is called Lula in <em>As I Lay Dying</em>, and Martha in <em>Light in August. </em> She's probably her husband's "better half," but she should not be equated with these other Mrs. Armstids.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:48:35 +0000sfr2385 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Tullhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-tull-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Unlike "Mrs. Tull" in <i>As I Lay Dying</i>, in this story Tull's unnamed wife never says a word. In fact, she only appears here because the narrator pluralizes "Tulls" when he lists the people who "was all there now," at the site of the burned church (41).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 13:58:26 +0000sfr2386 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSnopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There are many Snopeses in Faulkner's fiction, but this man is the most unspecified, anonymous, and inconsequential of all his family.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 14:00:09 +0000sfr2387 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Old Man) Killegrewhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-man-killegrew
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Killigrew is seventy years old, and prosperous enough to have a cook. He hunts foxes the old-fashioned way, which in Faulkner's Mississippi means "squatting on a hill" rather than riding to the hounds (27).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 14:02:53 +0000sfr2388 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Killegrewhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-killegrew
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Killigrew is not about to loan out her husband's tools.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 14:05:05 +0000sfr2389 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Cookhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-cook
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While the race of the Killegrew's cook is not specifically identified in the published story, there are no instances of any cooks in Yoknapatawpha who are not black. (And in the typescript version of "Shingles" she is referred to, twice, as the "nigger cook.")</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 14:08:41 +0000sfr2390 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWill Varnerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/will-varner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man who would like to be sole owner and proprietor of Frenchman's Bend usually dominates (or tries to) in this part of the country, but not in this story.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 14:12:21 +0000sfr2391 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBuck Thorpehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buck-thorpe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Buck Thorpe, (aka Jackson and Longstreet Fentry) is a young, poor-white man, who, at the beginning of "Tomorrow," has just been shot and killed by the farmer Bookwright for either sleeping with or attempting to sleep with his seventeen-year-old daughter. Buck, born to a young poor-white woman given shelter by Jackson Fentry, is raised by Fentry and given the name Jackson and Longstreet. At around three years of age, Jackson and Longstreet is reclaimed by his mother's family, the Thorpes, and is not heard from again until, as the ne'er do well Buck Thorpe, he is shot by Bookwright.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:49:02 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2401 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduStonewall Jackson Fentryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/stonewall-jackson-fentry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jackson Fentry is poor-white farmer and mill caretaker, who, at the beginning of "Tomorrow," refuses to acquit the farmer Bookwright, who has shot and killed Buck Thorpe for either sleeping with or attempting to sleep with his seventeen-year-old daughter. It is discovered that Fentry raised Buck, born to a young poor-white woman to whom he gives shelter and marries on her death-bed, and gives Buck the name Jackson and Longstreet.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:53:36 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2402 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRufus Pruitthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/rufus-pruitt-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rufus Pruitt, the closest neighbor to the Fentry's, is a working-class farmer. He, along with his mother, narrates part of the Fentry-Thorpe saga, helping Chick and Gavin to understand the behavior of Stonewall Jackson Fentry, the poor-white farmer who is the lone hold-out against an acquittal of Bookwright in the killing of Buck Thorpe.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 22:12:28 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2404 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Pruitthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-pruitt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Pruitt, is the wife of Pruitt, a working-class farmer and the closest neighbor to the Fentry's. She, along with her husband, narrates part of the Fentry-Thorpe saga, helping Chick and Gavin to fill in the back story of Stonewall Jackson Fentry, the poor-white farmer who is the lone hold-out against an acquittal of Bookwright in the killing of Buck Thorpe.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 31 May 2013 22:14:15 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2405 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jurorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jurors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ten of the jurors who serve wtih Mr. Fentry in the Bookwright trial are unnamed, but they are described as "farmers and store-keepers" (91).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:33:21 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2411 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduG.A. Fentryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ga-fentry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Stonewall Jackson Fentry's father, farmer and proprietor of the Fentry farm. He is Confederate veteran who fought under both Stonewall Jackson and James Longstreet.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:49:00 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2416 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIsham Quickhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/isham-quick
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Isham Quick is the son of proprietor of Quick's Mill. Isham is the first on the scene after Bookwright shoots and kills Buck Thorpe, and helps to reconstruct the story of Buck and Jackson Longstreet for Chick Mallison and Gavin Stevens.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 23:18:49 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2421 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBen Quickhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ben-quick
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Isham Quick's father and owner of the sawmill in Frenchman's Bend.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 23:30:25 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2424 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Miss Smith"|Thorpehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-smiththorpe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A wandering poor-white, pregnant woman given shelter and aid by Jackson Fentry at Quick's Sawmill. Though she says she is already married, right after her baby is born she is married to Fentry and then dies (105). When her brothers turn up years later looking for the child, we learn her maiden name is Thorpe, though all we learn about her original husband is that the Thorpe brothers "done already attended to him" (106).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:08:37 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2426 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMidwifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/midwife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Unnamed midwife who helps deliver Buck Thorpe/Jackson and Longstreet Fentry, "Miss Smith's" baby.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:16:22 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2428 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduThorpe Brothershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/thorpe-brothers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Brothers of "Miss Smith."</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:35:24 +0000chad.jewett@uconn.edu2432 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Servanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-servant-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnamed man who was Issetibbeha's slave and body servant for twenty-three years, and so must be killed and buried with his master, is the story's central character. He is identified as a "Guinea man," a term which can cover the entire region of west Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. He was brought as a slave to the U.S. from "Kamerun" at age 14 (327). He became Issetibbeha's "servant" not long after that. At the time of his death he is forty.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:13:57 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2450 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduThree Baskethttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/three-basket
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Three Basket is about sixty years old and apparently a kind of overseer on the Chickasaw plantation. Along with Louis Berry, he spends six days tracking down a Issetibbeha's servant, often remembering Doom's death, which was the last time a runaway slave had to be captured and killed.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:03:04 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2451 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Slaveshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-slaves
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Negro slaves owned by the Chickasaw Indians are described almost exclusively as a group: "a single octopus. They were like the roots of huge tree uncovered, the earth momentarily upon . . . its lightless and outraged life" (315). They adhere to their African customs, and keep ceremonial artifacts in the central cabin. The narrative characterizes them chiefly by their "fear" and "smell" (315), and the various rituals, including drumming and dancing, they practice. They treat the Servant as one who is already dead, but do give him food to eat.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:10:14 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2452 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoomhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/doom
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doom was one of three children and born as a subchief, a "Mingo," through his mother's side of the family. When he was young he went to New Orleans where he met Chevalier Soeur Blonde de Vitry, an unscrupulous adventurer from Paris. Vitry called him "<em>du homme</em>," which he turned into Doom (318). Together they gambled and drank in New Orleans until Doom impregnated a West Indian woman. Six months after he returns to his tribe, she follows him, and when she arrives Doom has been made chief because his uncle and cousins mysteriously died when he came back to town.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:25:47 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2453 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Maidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-maid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Negro Maid accompanies the West Indian woman, Issetibbeha's mother, to Doom's plantation.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:37:32 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2454 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Four Indianshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-four-indians
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These Indians meet Doom's West Indian wife and accompany her from the steamboat to his plantation.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:40:10 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2455 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoom's Unclehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dooms-uncle
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doom's uncle died mysteriously, most likely through poison, when Doom returned after being in New Orleans. The specific place of death is not indicate. He is the tribal leader before Doom takes over.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:21:26 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2456 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoom's Cousinhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dooms-cousin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doom's unnamed cousin was in line to become the chief of the Chickasaw. However, like his uncle the chief, he dies mysteriously after Doom returns from New Orleans.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:25:36 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2457 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduItinerant Minister and Slave Traderhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/itinerant-minister-and-slave-trader
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This itinerant slave trader and preacher marries Doom and his West Indian wife. It is unclear if he sells Doom more slaves.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:37:55 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2458 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFrancisco Luis Héctor de Carondelethttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/francisco-luis-h%C3%A9ctor-de-carondelet
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The historical Baron de Carondelet served the Spanish empire as Governor of Louisiana between 1791 and 1797. In the story, he and de Vitry are "said" to be friends in New Orleans, which at that time belonged to Spain (318).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:45:44 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2459 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral James Wilkinsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-james-wilkinson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Twice appointed Senior Officer of the U.S. Army between 1796 and 1812, James Wilkinson was a very controversial figure - while he fought for the young American nation, he was also secretly a paid agent of the Spanish crown. In the story "General Wilkinson" appears as an "intimate" friend of de Vitry in New Orleans (318). He lived in that city at several different times between 1787 and 1807.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:09:36 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2460 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRes Grierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/res-grier-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Res Grier, the narrator's "Pap," is not ordinarily ambitious or successful. He claims that "I don't own anything that even I would borrow" (34), though in the earlier story, "Two Soldiers," it is clear that he does own the land he farms. More aggressive here than in either of other stories in which he appears, Res shows himself as a trickster, and over-reacher, and a cock-eyed optimist.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:14:23 +0000jbc@ku.edu2461 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Folks"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-folks
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "folks," as Suratt calls them throughout his narrative, are the poor farmers who congregate at Varner's store or the horse auction, and who provide a kind of audience for Flem Snopes' rise from tenant farmer to the son-in-law of the hamlet's richest man.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:19:11 +0000sfr2462 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Snopeseshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-snopeses
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While Flem is the only Snopes who directly appears in the story, Suratt refers to his relatives as "a big family" who live in a group down by the river (165). According to Suratt, they tend move every year from farm to farm, and Flem is the only member of the family who does not stay a tenant farmer.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:26:00 +0000sfr2463 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLouis Berryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/louis-berry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>With Three Basket, Louis Berry searches for Issetibbeha's servant, who according to Chickasaw ritual, must die with his master.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:06:29 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2465 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoom's Clanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dooms-clan
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This tribe of Chickasaw Indians lived in north Mississippi during the early part of the nineteenth century. The founder of the tribe is Doom, and with his help the Indians became land and slave owners.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:09:58 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2466 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIssetibbehahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/issetibbeha
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Chickasaw chief, son of Doom/Ikkemotubbe and the unnamed woman with some "Negro blood" whom he met in New Orleans (321). He becomes chief at age 19 when his father dies. Under his leadership, the Indians begin imitating the behavior of the whites around them, including raising and selling slaves. He travels to Paris, and returns with several artifacts of high European culture. At age 21 he has a son called Moketubbe. When Moketubbe is 30, Issetibbeha dies, making him 51.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:16:40 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2467 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMoketubbehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/moketubbe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The son of Issetibbeha, he becomes "the Man," the new chief when his father dies (313). The narrator refers to his "monstrous shape" and calls him "diseased with flesh" (327, 321). The narrative depicts him as a very fat man too lazy to help pursue his father's runaway slave except by being carried by other Indians. Behind his "unfathomable lethargy" is probably also some form of retardation; even as a child, he only takes interest in the pair of "shoes with red heels" that his father brought back from Paris before he was born (320, 316).</p></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:20:11 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2468 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoom's Siblingshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dooms-siblings
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doom is described as "one of three children" (317), but the narrative does not say if his siblings were male or female. Like Doom, they were apparently may born in the Mingo tribe, a tribe from the north that had relations with the Chickasaws.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:25:45 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2469 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduChevalier Soeur Blonde de Vitryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/chevalier-soeur-blonde-de-vitry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doom meets de Vitry first in New Orleans. Called "the expatriate" whose "social position" is "equivocal" (317-38), de Vitry becomes the Indian's patron and is the first to call him <em>du homme</em>, which was pronounced Doom. Later, Issetibbeha meets him in Paris, where he is an "old man." De Vitry borrows $300 from Doom and "in return introduced him to certain circles" (320).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:28:00 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2470 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Gamblers and Cutthroatshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-gamblers-and-cutthroats
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Among this group of people, Doom, "under the tutelage of his patron," Chevalier Soeur Blonde de Vitry, "passed as the chief, the Man, the hereditary owner of that land" which he inherited from his father (317).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:31:14 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2471 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIssetibbeha's Cousinshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/issetibbehas-cousins
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For Issetibbeha, his father (Doom), and his uncles and cousins, are part of the "hierarchy ... who ruled the clan." His cousins help decide what to do with the excess of slaves that Issetibbeha inherits after Doom dies (319).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:33:35 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2472 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIssetibbeha's Uncleshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/issetibbehas-uncles
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For Issetibbeha, his father (Doom), and his uncles and cousins, are part of the "hierarchy ... who ruled the clan." The uncles help him decide what to do with the excess of slaves that he inherits after Doom dies (319).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:37:11 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2473 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIssetibbeha's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/issetibbehas-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "young woman" whom Doom seduces in New Orleans is first described as the "daughter of a fairly well-to-do West Indian family" (318). She is mainly white, but when her son Issetibbeha remembers her a few pages later, the narrative explicitly refers to "her Negro blood" (321). Given the casualness of the later reference, Faulkner might have expected his readers to read the designation "West Indian" as code for racial mixing in the first description, though that's by no means certain.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:41:03 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2474 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Residents of Horace's New Townhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-residents-horaces-new-town
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various people who turn a Mississippi hamlet into a prosperous but squalid town. The engine of its economy is a factory making an unspecified product from the local cypress trees, which are all being chopped down. The narrator labels this populace with a series of pejorative terms, including "brigands" and "bugs" (373).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:09:49 +0000sfr2509 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Washing Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-washing-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Negro women who used to carry laundry in bundles on their heads now fetch and deliver it in automobiles or have lost their jobs to commercial laundry services.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:40:47 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2525 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Husbands of Negro Washing Women http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-husbands-negro-washing-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The husbands of the washing women sometimes fetched and delivered clothes.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:33:08 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2530 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Stovallhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-stovall
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Stovall, the cashier in the Jefferson bank and a deacon in the Baptist church, knocks Nancy to the ground when she accuses him of having failed to pay her for sex.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:59:35 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2532 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Marshalhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-marshal
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The marshal, Jefferson's main police officer, arrested Nancy and accompanied her to jail. On the way, he prevented Mr. Stovall from doing any more harm to Nancy than kicking her in the mouth and knocking out her teeth.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:03:52 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2533 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Passersbyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-passersby
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>They told about Nancy and Mr Stovall and those that passed the jail that night could hear Nancy singing and yelling and the jailor trying to make her stop (291).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:21:16 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2535 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaroline Bascomb Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/caroline-bascomb-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Caroline Bascomb Compson is the wife of Jason Compson III and the mother of Quentin, Caddy, and Jason Compson III. She opposes her husband's decision to allay Nancy's fears that Jesus is waiting to harm her by accompanying Nancy to her cabin. "'You'll leave these children unprotected, with that Negro about?'" she complains (294).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:32:53 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2538 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negrohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An unnamed Negro told Nancy that Jesus had returned from Memphis.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:38:45 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2539 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIssetibbeha's Maternal Unclehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/issetibbehas-maternal-uncle
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "son and brother" of the well-to-do family of Issetibbeha's mother seeks Doom after he disappears from New Orleans (318).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:25:21 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2541 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Indian(1) http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-indian1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This Indian is one of three men among the "hierarchy of cousins and uncles" who rule the clan and decide the fate of the slaves after Doom's death (319). He proposes that the slaves raise their own food, reproduce, and then the Indians can sell them, though they do not as of yet have plans for what to do with the income.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:28:24 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2542 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Indian(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-indian2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This Indian is one of three men among the "hierarchy of cousins and uncles" who rule the clan and decide the fate of the slaves after Doom's death (319). He reminds the others that the slaves are too valuable to eat, in part because they have been such a "bother" because they required the Indians to find things for them to do.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:31:04 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2543 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>By saying that Nancy should have "just let white men alone" (295), Mr. Compson suggests that Mr. Stovall may not be the only white man with whom she has had sex.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:27:57 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2549 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRobert E. Leehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/robert-e-lee
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>General Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, in which Sutpen served as a Colonel.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:34:28 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2550 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Possehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-posse
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the group of armed white men who rode out to Wash's shack with de Spain.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:39:15 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu2551 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduT.P. Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tp-gibson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Dilsey and Roskus Gibson's son, and brother of Versh and Frony. He only appears briefly by name, when Caddy says to Jason: "You were scairder than Frony. You were scairder than T.P. even. Scairder than niggers" (294).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:51:38 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu2556 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Loveladyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-lovelady
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin describes Mr. Lovelady as "a short, dirty man who collected the Negro insurance, coming around to the cabins or the kitchens every Saturday morning, to collect fifteen cents" (308). He lives at the hotel with his wife and only daughter. After Mrs. Lovelady commits suicide, he leaves town with his daughter, then returns a week or two later alone. Nancy mentions she has invested money for a coffin with him.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:06:48 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu2558 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Indian(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-indian3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This Indian is one of three men among the "hierarchy of cousins and uncles" who rule the clan and decide the fate of the slaves after Doom's death (319). He cautions his fellow Indians from starting to eat Doom's slaves. "Once started, we should have to eat them all." He notes that too much human flesh in one's diet is not healthy.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:31:17 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2589 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Slave Traderhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-slave-trader
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>To get money to go to Europe, Issetibbeha sells forty slaves to "a Memphis trader" (320).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:38:02 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2590 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduForty Sold Slaveshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/forty-sold-slaves
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These forty slaves are sold by Issetibbeha to a Memphis trader. He uses the money to go to Europe.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:40:08 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2591 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMadame de Pompadourhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/madame-de-pompadour
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mme. de Pompadour was the primary mistress of Louis XV's, King of France. Issetibbeha returns home from France with some furniture reputedly owned by Louis XV.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:49:53 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2592 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduKing Louis XVhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/king-louis-xv
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>French monarch of the House of Bourbon, who ruled from 1 September 1715 until he died in 1774. During his visit to France, Issetibbeha acquires some furniture and red slippers that allegedly belonged to the monarch.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:53:47 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2593 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMoketubbe's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/moketubbes-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Issetibbeha first sees the woman working in a melon patch. She has "broad, solid thighs," a "sound back" and a "serene face," reminding him of his own mother (321).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:56:57 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2594 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An unidentified white man shows Issetibbeha how to use snuff.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:59:23 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2595 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIndian Doctorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/indian-doctor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Indian "doctor" who treats Issetibbeha in his last illness weats a "skunk skin vest" (321) or "waistcoat" (329). He "burns sticks" in an unsuccessful attempt to cure his patient (322).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:02:08 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2596 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Shortly after Issetibbeha dies, this unnamed man speaks with two Indian women about the old days.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:03:59 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2597 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Fowl-Dressing Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-fowl-dressing-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This woman listens to the unnamed old man tell the stories of the olden days.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 05:23:12 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2598 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Corn Shelling Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-corn-shelling-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two women listening to the Old Man tell tales of yore.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 05:25:32 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2599 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Young Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-young-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Issetibbeha takes over he puts the "young Negroes" in the cabins to "mate" (320) and produce children whom he can sell.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:33:38 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2602 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIssetibbeha's Newest Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/issetibbehas-newest-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is Issetibbeha's "newest wife"(321), not Moketubbe's mother but the woman who tells him Moketubbe has hidden the slippers. She is unwilling to sleep in the gilt bed that Issetibbeha brought back from Paris.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:49:28 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2604 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Striplinghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-stripling
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The stripling attends to Moketubbe on his litter.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:54:39 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2605 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHeadmanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/headman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He tells the Servant Issetibbeha is still alive.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:56:53 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2606 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-children-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "pickaninnies" are "naked in the dust" (328).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:00:50 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2607 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWomen with Nursing Infantshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/women-nursing-infants
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The women are part of a drum circle. In the story, only the African-Americans have drums, which they hide, therefore it is possible to assume with a great degree of certainty that these women are also African-American.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:25:13 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2608 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Nursing Infantshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-nursing-infants
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The children are being nursed by the women around the drum circle.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:26:48 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2609 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negrohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The servant encounters this man running away from his captors. They exchange glances.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:31:33 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2610 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Five Indianshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-five-indians
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These Indians are waiting to pursue the servant.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:36:35 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2611 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Twenty-Five Indianshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-twenty-five-indians
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the search party that will find the servant.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:37:42 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2612 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These women, like the children and old men, are not out capturing the servant.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:42:52 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2613 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These children are not out pursuing the servant, just like the women and old men.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:44:05 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2614 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The old men are not out pursuing the servant, just like the women and children.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:45:59 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2615 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are the men sent out to capture the servant, along with the big boys.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:49:52 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2616 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Big Boyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-big-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are the big boys sent out to capture the servant, along with the men.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:50:59 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2617 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Indianhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-indian
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Servant comes face to face with this Indian on a footlog across a slough.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:21 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2618 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHad-Two-Fathershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/had-two-fathers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In "Red Leaves" the character named Had-Two-Fathers appears only once, briefly, as one of the men who tell Moketubbe he should take off the red slippers. As both Had-Two-Fathers and, more frequently, Sam Fathers, however, this character will play major roles in many of Faulkner's other fictions.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:57:10 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2619 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Runnershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-runners
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The runners communicate between the search party and Moketubbe during his capture of the Servant.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:04:16 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2620 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Couriershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-couriers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The couriers provide information to Moketubbe during the hunt for the Servant.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:05:25 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2621 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLooshhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/loosh
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Loosh is Philadelphy's husband, Ringo's uncle, and Joby's son. Loosh is the only black on the Sartoris plantation who openly desires the freedom for slaves offered by the Yankees. In this story, Loosh ridicules the war games of Ringo and Baynard, suggesting (though the boys do not understand his implications) that the South is on its way to inevitable defeat.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:02:05 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2636 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPhiladelphyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/philadelphy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Philadelphy is the wife of Loosh. She tries to get Loosh to quit talking his pro-Yankee talk in front of Ringo and Bayard, but to little avail.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:08:48 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2637 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel John Sartoris is the patriarch of the Sartoris family, and one of the major figures in the Yoknapatawpha fiction. He had two daughters (unnamed in Faulkner's works) and a son, Bayard. His wife apparently died during Bayard's childbirth (1849), so Sartoris was a widower by the time of the Civil War. He left his mother-in-law, Rosa Millard, in charge of his plantation during the war. Sartoris briefly returns to his plantation during "Ambuscade." The main purpose for the visit seems to be arranging for the family silver to be hidden from the encroaching Yankee army.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:03:04 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2638 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral John Pembertonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-john-pemberton
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>John Clifford Pemberton grew up in Pennsylvania. Attending West Point, he served in the United States Military, moving almost every year, thus serving all over the country. While serving at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, he met and later married Martha Thompson, the daughter of a prominent Norfolk shipping family. Historians believe it was this marriage that caused Pemberton to resign his commission and join the Confederate Army a week after Virginia seceded from the Union. On October 1, 1862, General Pemberton was given command of the District of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:58:00 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2648 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRingohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ringo
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ringo, the same age as Bayard Sartoris, stands as Bayard's constant childhood companion. Ringo holds a special place in the Sartoris household, treated by the whites in some respects as one of the white children. Ringo plays in the “Civil War” childhood battles with Bayard. He takes an active part in the spotting of and the shooting at the Yankee soldier. He encourages Bayard with chants of "Shoot the bastud! Shoot him!" as Bayard aims and fires the musket. While virtually all the characters in the story refer to him as Ringo, Granny (Rosa Millard) will only address him as Marengo.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:13:46 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2649 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLouviniahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/louvinia-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Louvinia serves as the cook for the Sartoris family. She is Ringo's grandmother, Joby's wife, Philadelphy's mother, and Loosh's mother-in-law. In this story, she acts a disciplinary figure for the children (Ringo and Bayard). Louvinia becomes very put out with Loosh's talk of black freedom.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:31:29 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2650 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJobyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joby
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In this story, Joby is married to Louvinia. He is Loosh and Simon's father and Ringo's grandfather. In his appearance in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, he is Simon's grandfather.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:41:37 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2651 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSergeant Harrisonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sergeant-harrison
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Little is known about Sergeant Harrison's background, other than his last name and rank in the Union army. He is first spotted by Ringo and Bayard looking at the Sartoris family home through field glasses, and it apparently is his horse that was shot by them. He was clearly angered by that shooting, but mainly because the victim was "the best horse in the whole army" (12), on which the entire regiment was betting in an upcoming horse race.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:57:35 +0000william.teem@gmail.com2654 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People at Funeralhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-funeral
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"The People" arrive in wagons and on foot to attend Issetibbeha's funeral.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:58:22 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2655 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Fourteen-Year-Old Slavehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-fourteen-year-old-slave
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "lad of fourteen" is "undersized," "mute," and apparently a curiosity to the Indians (328). He is tasked with guarding the slaves' drums, which are hidden in the swamp outside of the plantation.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:18:22 +0000garrettm@u.northwestern.edu2666 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to a speculation by Mr. Compson, she is the new wife that Jesus acquired in St Louis (295).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:31:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com2721 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGranny Rosa Millardhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/granny-rosa-millard
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rosa Millard is the mother-in-law of Col. John Sartoris and the grandmother of Bayard Sartoris in "Ambuscade." No details of her earlier life are revealed in this story, but she lives at the Sartoris plantation and is responsible for managing things while her son-in-law is away fighting in the Civil War. She is referred to as "Granny" both by Bayard and by Ringo, a family slave who is the same age as Bayard and his best friend.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:08:27 +0000padgettjb@brevard.edu2728 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBayard Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bayard-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bayard Sartoris is the twelve-year-old narrator of "Ambuscade," though he is telling the story some years later (as other stories in the series and in <em>The Unvanquished</em> make clear). The son of a prominent planter who is now a colonel in the Confederate army, Bayard looks up to and admires his father, Colonel John Sartoris. At the time of this story, the hardships and realities of the Civil War have not reached him or his friend, Ringo, who is both black and a slave on the Sartoris plantation but despite that is treated as a member of the family in most respects.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:15:59 +0000padgettjb@brevard.edu2729 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Generalhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-general
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed Union general is merely referred to in "Ambuscade" by Sergeant Harrison, who heard the general say "if he had enough horses, he wouldn’t always care whether there was anybody to ride them or not" (13). No other details about the general are mentioned in the story.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:19:29 +0000padgettjb@brevard.edu2730 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-soldiers-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Ringo sees this calvary unit riding up to the plantation, he exclaims them to be "the whole [Union] army" (10), but it's more likely they comprise a single regiment (or less). After Bayard and Ringo fire a shot in their direction, an unspecified number of these soldiers follow the two boys back to the Sartoris plantation and even enter the house in search of them.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:21:40 +0000padgettjb@brevard.edu2731 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnion Colonelhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/union-colonel
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An unnamed Union colonel with "a bright short beard and hard bright gray eyes," whose name is revealed in a later story in the series to be Colonel Nathaniel G. Dick of an unspecified Ohio cavalry regiment. In "Ambuscade," his cordial encounter with Granny Rosa Millard following the shooting of a Union horse, and his choice to accept her claim that no children were present on the premises, contrasts with Sergeant Harrison, who is intent to find and punish the boys responsible for the shooting.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:27:18 +0000padgettjb@brevard.edu2732 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Shermanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-sherman-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the Civil War, Sherman served as a General in the Union army. Best known (and in the South, reviled) for his "March to the Sea" through Georgia near the end of the War, he fought in Tennessee at Shiloh and Corinth in 1862, and later in the Vicksburg campaign. In February, 1864, he passed through Meridian and Jackson, Mississippi.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:29:11 +0000paf15@psu.edu2754 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Little Boyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-little-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mentioned only once, the groups of "little boys" who follow Homer and his gang of construction workers as they pave the town's sidewalks are equally fascinated by the white man's profanity and the black men's singing (124).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:15:26 +0000sfr2755 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Very Old Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-very-old-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There are an unspecified number of these "very old men," some of whom fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, at Emily's funeral (129).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:49:06 +0000sfr2757 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Spectators at First Trialhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-spectators-first-trial
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In attendance at Ab Snopes' trial are a group of men from the neighborhood. The narrative only describes them (three times in two pages) as a set of "grim faces," but their hostility to Snopes is unmistakble.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:19:12 +0000sfr2758 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Half-Grown Boyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-half-grown-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While inside the general store at Ab Snopes' trial are the "grim-faced men" (along with Ab's two sons), just outside on the porch are "dogs" and this group of "half-grown boys" (5), with one of whom Sarty fights.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:24:09 +0000sfr2759 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Descendants of Ab Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-descendants-ab-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative's reference to these unnamed "descendants" of Ab Snopes (6), who drive cars just as badly as Ab once drove his mules, marks an untypical moment when a Faulkner text evokes the presence of the future rather than the past. There is obviously no exact way to locate these characters in either time or space, but after 1920, and in Frenchman's Bend, are plausible choices.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:34:11 +0000sfr2760 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Civil War Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-civil-war-soldiers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the soldiers, the "men, blue or gray" (7), whom Ab Snopes had to dodge during his private Civil War missions as a horse thief.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:20:20 +0000sfr2765 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Spectators at Second Trialhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-spectators-second-trial
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The second time the story describes Ab inside a makeshift general store courtroom, there is again a crowd of men in attendance. This time their faces are described as "quiet, watching" (17).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:30:29 +0000sfr2773 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMalbrouckhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/malbrouck
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It seems clear that Faulkner is thinking of John Churchill when he compares Ab to "Malbrouck," a corruption of Churchill's title as First Duke of Malborough. Between the 1670s and his death in 1722, Churchill rose from the rank of page to become one of the most influential generals and statesmen in English history. While serving five English monarchs, he never neglected his own ambitions for power and wealth.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:46:08 +0000sfr2774 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoom's Slavehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dooms-slave
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At the time of Doom's death, his unnamed slave is pursued so he can be killed and buried with his master.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:06:01 +0000cornellgoldw@fordham.edu2793 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed New England Captainhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-new-england-captain
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This New England captain reads the Bible to the slaves while transporting them.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:11:42 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2794 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Unitarian Traderhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-unitarian-trader
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "trader" may be the American who buys the protagonist after he reaches America, though that isn't specifically said (330). The narrative identifies him as "a deacon in the Unitarian church" (330), but the Unitarians don't have deacons.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:14:20 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu2795 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBookwright's Daughterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bookwrights-daughter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Never named, this "country girl of seventeen" (90) falls for Buck Thorpe's swagger. Her father, referred to only as "Bookwright," apparently discover her during "the inevitable elopement at midnight" and shoots Buck (90). Her subsequent fate is not mentioned.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:45:20 +0000sfr2798 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBookwrighthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bookwright
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "solid, well-to-do farmer, husband and father" from Frenchman's Bend (90) is Gavin Stevens' client. He turned himself in after shooting Buck Thorpe to keep him from eloping with his daughter; the story begins during his trial for that crime. <em>Homer</em> Bookwright appears in "Spotted Horses," but there is no clear evidence to identify this character with that one.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:00:05 +0000sfr2802 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed District Attorneyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-district-attorney
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The District Attorney of Yoknapatawpha apparently feels so certain that Bookwright will be found not guilty that he "conduct[s] the case through an assistant" (91), and does not otherwise appear in the story.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:05:37 +0000sfr2803 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Assistant District Attorneyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-assistant-district-attorney
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed lawyer, appointed by the District Attorney to handle Bookwright's trial, is content merely to go through the required motions, presenting the evidence in less than an hour and only "bow[ing] to the court" rather than presenting a closing argument (92).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:09:33 +0000sfr2804 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Court Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-court-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As part of the apparently perfunctory effort to go through the legal forms, this clerk reads the county's indictment against Bookwright.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:11:56 +0000sfr2805 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJudge Frazierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/judge-frazier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This undescribed Judge, named by the man whom Chick calls "grandfather" (93), is so sure that Bookwright will quickly be acquitted that he "doesn't retire" to his chambers when the jury begins deliberating (92).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:14:07 +0000sfr2806 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduChick's Grandfather Stevenshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/chicks-grandfather-stevens
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man whom Chick refers to as "grandfather" (89) and that the Pruitt's call "Captain Stevens" (96) is the father of Gavin and Chick's mother, Margaret Stevens Mallison - though she is not named in Chick's narrative. He is apparently still a practicing attorney at the time of this story, though his son persuaded him to let him take Bookwright's case. In the other Yoknapatawpha fictions in which he appears or is mentioned, he is referred to as Judge Stevens.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:17:28 +0000sfr2807 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Mrs. Thorpe"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-thorpe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This woman, "who claimed to be Thorpe's wife" (90), appears in Frenchman's Bend a week after he was shot, hoping he left some property. Though she has "a wedding license to prove it" (90), the narrative tone sounds suspicious about her marriage.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:23:59 +0000sfr2808 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bailiffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bailiff
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We know nothing more about the bailiff than the functions he performs in the courtroom.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:26:38 +0000sfr2809 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Hollandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-holland
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Holland is the foreman of the jury that cannot reach a verdict in the Bookwright murder trial; Chick, who knows him by name but does not explain how, sees him arguing in exasperation with Mr. Fentry.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:57:12 +0000sfr2820 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduChick's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/chicks-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The daughter of Judge Stevens, the brother of Gavin Stevens, the mother of Charles "Chick" Mallison - Margaret Mallison's role in the various late Yoknapatawpha fictions in which she appears is usually defined by her relationships to these male figures. In "Tomorrow" she is mentioned once, when Gavin tells Chick to tell her about the trip they will be taking out of town (94).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:04:57 +0000sfr2821 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"The People" of Yoknapatawphahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/people-yoknapatawpha
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In his narrative Chick refers once to "all the people in our country - the Negroes, the hill people, the rich flatland plantation owners" (91). Chick is explaining that, despite his uncle Gavin's formal education at Harvard and Heidelberg, he knows how to talk to "all the people" so that they understand him. This is a rare passage in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, in which the population of the county is aggregated across racial and class lines.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:18:11 +0000sfr2822 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Sawmill Workershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-sawmill-workers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Apparently except for Fentry, the workers at Quick's sawmill are all black. At least, when Isham Quick describes Fentry's arrival at the mill, he says he did "the same work" and drew "the same pay as the niggers done" (103).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:04 +0000sfr2823 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Stonewall Jacksonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-stonewall-jackson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Thomas Jackson received the nickname "Stonewall" during the First Battle of Bull Run. Until his death in 1863 he was one of the Confederacy's most successful generals, and one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted commanders. G.A. Fentry, who served under Jackson, named both his son and adopted grandson in his honor.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:15:16 +0000sfr2826 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral James Longstreethttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-james-longstreet
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>James Longstreet was arguably the best corps commander in the Confederate army. G.A. Fentry served under him during the Civil War, and honored him with the name he and his son gave the boy they adopt as "Jackson and Longstreet Fentry."</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:19:59 +0000sfr2827 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFentry's Grandfatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/fentrys-grandfather
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Pruitt tells Gavin Stevens that Fentry's "grandpa" worked the family's small, poor farm "until he died between the plow handles" working in the field (97). He was probably the first Fentry to settle in Yoknapatawpha.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:23:57 +0000sfr2828 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFentry's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/fentrys-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All readers learn about Mrs. G. A. Fentry is that, like her mother-in-law before her, she died before she was forty. According to Pruitt, it was "that place," the poor Fentry farm on which she lived and the impoverished life she led there, that killed her (96).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:31:23 +0000sfr2829 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFentry's Grandmotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/fentrys-grandmother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Like her daughter-in-law, this Mrs. Fentry died before she was forty. According to Pruitt, it was "that place," the poor Fentry farm on which she lived and the impoverished life she led there, that killed both women at such a young age (96).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:34:05 +0000sfr2830 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Pruitthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-pruitt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In her conversation with Gavin Stevens, Pruitt's unnamed mother recalls how poor she and her husband were when they married: "we didn't even own a roof over our heads. We moved into a rented house, on rented land" (96-97). This is all readers hear about Mr. Pruitt, but it suggests that at the time the story takes place the family owns the land they farm.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:41:23 +0000sfr2831 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPreacher Whitfieldhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/preacher-whitfield
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rev. Whitfield (as the man Quick refers to as "Preacher Whitfield" is usually called) is Frenchman's Bend's Baptist minister and an important character in several Yoknapatawpha fictions, beginning with <em>As I Lay Dying</em> (1930). In this story readers learn that he lives "seven miles" from Quick's sawmill, but not in which direction (105). His role in the story is to marry Fentry and the woman who calls herself "Miss Smith," and then, when she dies, to preside over her burial (105).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:02:23 +0000sfr2832 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Hired Handhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-hired-hand
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Stonewall Jackson Fentry leaves his father's farm to try "to earn a little extra money" working at a sawmill in Frenchman's Bend, according to Pruitt, he made some kind of arrangement with this unnamed black man to help on the farm in his place. Pruitt tells Gavin Stevens he often heard the father "cussing the nigger for not moving fast enough" in the field, but when two years later the son brings the baby home, the Fentrys continue to employ him for a season (97).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:21:17 +0000sfr2833 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men of Frenchman's Bendhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-frenchmans-bend
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As Quick sits on the gallery of Varner's Store, telling Gavin Stevens about Buck Thorpe's return to Frenchman's Bend, he mentions "about a half a dozen" other young men who both fight with Thorpe and often sat on the same gallery listening to and laughing at his talk (109).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:26:16 +0000sfr2834 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Cattle Rancherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-cattle-rancher
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Known only by his role in an offstage event, this is the man who "promptly identifie[s]" the stolen cattle Buck Thorpe is driving along the road to Memphis (90).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:40:32 +0000sfr2843 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWill Varnerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/will-varner-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A major character in the Snopes trilogy, Will Varner is the largest land-owner in Frenchman's Bend, as well as its store keeper, veterinarian, justice of the peace and "chief officer" (90).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:55:20 +0000sfr2846 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Ben Quickhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-ben-quick
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This woman makes a very brief appearance in the text when Isham Quick refers to "the dishes and skillet mammy" let Fentry have while he lived in the boiler room at the sawmill (105).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:31:58 +0000sfr2872 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Deputy Sheriffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-deputy-sheriff
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quick identifies this unnamed man as "the deputy or bailiff or whatever he was" (105). He accompanies the Thorpe brothers when they arrive in Frenchman's Bend with a court order for custody of their sister's child.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:42:03 +0000sfr2875 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Husband" of "Miss Smith"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-husband-miss-smith
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This character's true identity is unusually ambiguous. Both "Miss Smith" and her brothers, the Thorpes, state that she was married when she arrived in Frenchman's Bend, eight months pregnant. And when Isham Quick tells those brothers about her marriage to Fentry, they add that they "done already attended to" this husband (106). But the story does not make it clear what they did to or for him, or for that matter if the man who was the father of her child really was also her husband, and it says nothing about why, if that was so, she ran away to Yoknapatawpha.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:53:25 +0000sfr2877 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Section Handhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-section-hand
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to by Simon simply as a "Section hand" (7), this railroad worker is apparently the only witness to Young Bayard's 1919 return to Jefferson from World War I. It seems that he told Simon about it, and Simon in turn tells Old Bayard.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:17:59 +0000sfr2903 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Grandfather of Old Bayard Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-grandfather-old-bayard-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Will Falls tells Old Bayard the story of how Yankees almost caught Colonel John Sartoris at his plantation during the Civil War, he mentions that Bayard's two sisters (who are never named) went to stay with "yo' gran'pappy" in Memphis when the Colonel went off to fight (20). That's the only mention of this character anywhere in the Yoknapatawpha fiction. Given the fact that the rest of Colonel John's family (his sister Virginia and his brother Bayard) were living in "Carolina" at this time, it seems most likely that this Memphis man is Bayard's maternal grandfather.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:15:06 +0000sfr2930 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boys and Girlshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boys-and-girls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are the anonymous "boys and girls" who "lingered on spring and summer nights" among the birds and bushes in the lot on which the unnamed "hillman" later built his home (25).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:23:52 +0000sfr2931 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLena Grovehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lena-grove
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lena Grove is at the center of one of the three major plot lines in <em>Light in August</em>. Born in Alabama in 1912, she moved to her brother's house at the age of twelve, when her parents died. As of August, 1932, she around 21 years old, more than eight months pregnant, and traveling alone and on foot to find Lucas Burch, the father of her unborn child. Lena is a patient, trusting soul who feels no shame at her condition; she is also self-reliant, asking for no one's help yet accepting it gratefully during four weeks of traveling.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:21:08 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2938 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLucas Burchhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lucas-burch
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Tall, young. Dark complected" (55). One of the "sawdust Casanovas" among the Doane's Mill workers, Lucas Burch impregnates and deserts Lena Grove in Alabama (6). He finds his way to Jefferson, where, unimaginatively changing his name to "Joe Brown," he takes a menial job in the planing mill, but he quits to join Christmas as partner in a bootleg whiskey business.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:28:39 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2939 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduArmstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/armstid-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In <em>Light in August</em>, he helps Lena Grove on her journey to find the father of her unborn child by giving her room and board for a night and a ride the next morning to Varner's store. Armstid's first name isn't mentioned in this novel, but in other fictions he is Henry; his character in <em>The Hamlet</em> is far less admirable than in <em>Light in August</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:38:53 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2940 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMartha Armstidhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/martha-armstid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A stern and hardworking woman, Martha is Armstid's wife, who gives Lena Grove her savings from selling eggs when Lena stays overnight. In <em>The Hamlet</em>, her first name is given as Lula.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:22:08 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2941 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWinterbottomhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/winterbottom-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A farmer in the Frenchman's Bend area of Yoknapatawpha. The narrative begins on the road that runs past his farm.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:25:39 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2942 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men at Varner's Storehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-varners-store
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The group of men at Varner's store who watch as the pregnant Lena Grove descends from Armstid's wagon are described as "squatting" and "already spitting across the heelgnawed porch" (25). They "listen quietly" as the tells her story, and are all sure she will never again see the father of the child she carries (26).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:30:56 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2943 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSamsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/samson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Armstid tells his wife Martha that Lena Grove "says that somebody down at Samson's told her there is a fellow named Burch or something working at the planing mill in Jefferson" (16). There's no indication in <em>Light in August</em> what "Samson's" might be, but in the previously published <em>As I Lay Dying</em> there is a Samson who has a farm in the same Frenchman's Bend area as Armstid's.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:36:45 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2944 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEarliest Carolina Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/earliest-carolina-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jenny Du Pre refers to the man who built the plantation where she grew up in "Carolina" (whether North or South is never specified) as her "great-great-great-grandfather" (50). This would probably make him a contemporary of American Founding Fathers like Jefferson and Washington.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:01:31 +0000sfr2955 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Army Officershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-army-officers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the "white officers" in charge of the African American "labor battalion" that Caspey Strother serves in during World War I (57).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:43:26 +0000sfr2961 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSenator James Vardamanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/senator-james-vardaman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Known as "The Great White Chief," Vardaman served one term as Governor of Mississippi (1904-1908) and one term in the United States Senate (1913-1919). A militant segregationist, he vowed to lynch every African American in the state if that was necessary. He opposed U.S. involvement in the First World War, and (as Aunt Jenny notes) argued against using "colored" troops in any way in the Army.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:26:26 +0000sfr2965 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Mister Joe Butler"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mister-joe-butler
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Butler" is one of the two characters whom Byron Snopes invents in his attempt to deceive Virgil Beard about the nature of the anonymous letters he is sending Narcissa. He is supposed to live in St. Louis.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:14:32 +0000sfr2970 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Hal Wagner"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hal-wagner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Wagner" is one of the two characters whom Byron Snopes invents in his attempt to deceive Virgil Beard about the nature of the anonymous letters he is sending Narcissa.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:16:05 +0000sfr2971 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People of Yoknapatawphahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-yoknapatawpha
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha who are seen in town at various points during the narrative.<br /></p></div></div></div>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:55:29 +0000sfr2974 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWoodrow Wilsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/woodrow-wilson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The 28th President of the United States, he led the country into the First World War and was still in office during the events of <em>Flags in the Dust</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:09:25 +0000sfr2975 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEugene V. Debshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eugene-v-debs
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A labor organizer, Debs was the Socialist Party of America's candidate for President in 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1920. In that last election he received over 900,000 votes.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:14:41 +0000sfr2976 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSuratt's Oldest Brotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/suratts-oldest-brother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>V. K. Suratt's "oldest brother" appears briefly in the novel as the person who taught him how "to chop cotton" fast if he wanted to keep from losing his toes (137).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:39:20 +0000sfr2979 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLena Grove's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lena-groves-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lena Grove's father dies in the same summer as her mother does (1924), when Lena is twelve years old. Both parents have impressed upon her a sense of filial duty; she takes care of her father at her mother's dying request and goes to live with her brother McKinley in accordance with her father's wish.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:01:10 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2990 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLena Grove's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lena-groves-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lena Grove's mother dies in the same summer as Lena's father does (1924), when Lena is twelve years old. Both parents have impressed upon her a sense of filial duty; she takes care of her father at her mother's dying request and goes to live with her brother McKinley in accordance with her father's wish.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:05:48 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2991 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMcKinley Grovehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mckinley-grove
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lena Grove's brother McKinley brings her to live with his family in Doane's Mill, Alabama, when she is twelve years old and their parents die. He is "just forty" years old and "twenty years her senior" (5), which gives him a birth date in 1892. "He was a hard man": when his wife tells him that Lena is pregnant, he "calls her whore," (6), after which Lena leaves Doane's Mill in search of her baby's father.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:15:51 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2992 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. McKinley Grovehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-mckinley-grove
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>McKinley Grove's wife is described as "labor- and childridden," spending "almost half of every year either pregant or "recovering" (5), so it is not surprising that she discovers her sister-in-law Lena's pregnancy and tells McKinley about it.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:23:46 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2993 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMcKinley Grove's Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mckinley-groves-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative says that Grove McKinley's wife was "labor- and childridden," so the couple may have had more than three children (5). While she is either "lying in or recovering," Lena takes care of them. Only three nephews are specifically (and anonymously) mentioned; they sleep in the same "leanto room" attached to the McKinley house as Lena (5).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:29:54 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2994 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJody Varnerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jody-varner-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jody Varner runs the store founded by his father Will in Frenchmen’s Bend. He gives us the first indication that the man Lena has heard about at the planing mill in Jefferson is not Lucas Burch but Byron Bunch. Jody also silently declines to sympathize with the unmarried and pregnant Lena, perhaps anticipating his later obsession (in <em>The Hamlet</em>, 1940) with his sensual sister, Eula.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:44:19 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2995 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Wagon Driver(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-wagon-driver1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This good-natured man gives Lena Grove a ride from Varner's Store to Jefferson; on the outskirts of the town, they see the smoke from Joanna Burden's burning house.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:48:58 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2996 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Clerk at Varner's Storehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-clerk-varners-store
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This man waits on Lena Grove at Varner's store, where she buys cheese, crackers, and a box of sardines - which they both pronounce "sour-deens" - for lunch on the way to Jefferson (27).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:54:26 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2997 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLena's Infant Sonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-child-lena-grove-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This boy is born in Joe Christmas' cabin on Joanna Burden's property on the same day that Christmas is lynched in Jefferson. When Hightower asks his name, Lena says "I aint named him yet" (410). Joe's grandmother, who is there at his birth, calls him "Joey," confusing him with Joe, whom she has not seen since he was a baby over thirty-six years ago (397). Lena's baby's father has abandoned him, but at the end of the novel Lena is taking him with her as she resumes her travels.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:02:02 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2998 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduByron Bunchhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/byron-bunch
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "small man who will not see thirty again" (47), Bryon Bunch came to Jefferson seven years before the novel begins, and leaves the town before it ends. The bookkeeper at the planing mill where he works calls him a "hillbilly" (413). While in Jefferson, for six days every week he is a steady, dependable worker in the mill; every Sunday he directs a country church choir.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:07:30 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu2999 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People along Lena's Wayhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-along-lenas-way
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This group represents the folks who, Lena says, "have been right kind" to her during her travels on foot from Alabama to Yoknapatawpha. The narrative implies a difference between the way men and women judge Lena when it describes Mrs. Beard looking at her "once, completely, as strange women had been doing for four weeks now" (85). Nonetheless the narrative does confirm Lena's assertion that everyone is "kind." When she inquires for Lucas Burch, people send her along to the next town, often finding her a ride in the process.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:30:20 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3001 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Servants of Dr. Peabodyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-servants-dr-peabody
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In addition to Abe, the only one given a name, Dr. Peabody's household of black servants includes, to quote his patronizing description, "six or seven registered ones" as well as (hyperbolically) "a new yearlin' every day or so" (303). Like Abe, their main task seems to be assisting the gentlemen and ladies who come to fish at the doctor's pond.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:42:23 +0000sfr3036 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Drug Store Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drug-store-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "youthful clerk" in the drug store who re-wraps the package that Joan dropped in the street also "star[es] at her boldly" (319). This ungallant action is the only detail we have to characterize him, although it is probably intended to reveal at least as much about Joan as the kind of woman who invites such behavior.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:39:21 +0000sfr3067 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAb Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ab-snopes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the larger Yoknapatawpha saga, Abner Snopes is the patriarch of the Snopes family, the father of Flem. In this story, he appears as a kind of employee of the Sartoris family, who stays behind when most of the white men of Yoknapatawpha County leave to fight in the Civil War. Colonel John Sartoris asks him to look after Rosa Millard while he's away, but indicates how well he knows Ab by also asking Bayard and Ringo to keep an eye on him. Mainly Ab looks after his own interests.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:13:18 +0000thagood@fau.edu3080 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRingohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ringo-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ringo, the same age as Bayard Sartoris, stands as both Bayard's slave and his constant childhood companion; he may even be Bayard's half-brother. He plays a particularly important role in Rosa Millard's mule-trading business in "The Unvanquished": eventually Bayard comes to see that Ringo becomes practically an equal partner with Rosa, and in some ways is even superior to her and to Bayard, as he freely advises both of them and even at one point orders Bayard to fetch paper and ink.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:21:37 +0000thagood@fau.edu3081 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBayard Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bayard-sartoris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bayard Sartoris is the narrator of "The Unvanquished," though he is telling the story some years later (as other stories in the series and in <em>The Unvanquished</em> make clear). The son of a prominent planter who is now a Confederate officer, Bayard looks up to and admires his father, Colonel John Sartoris. At the time of this story, the hardships and realities of the Civil War have reached him, as he works with his friend Ringo to aid his grandmother Rosa Millard scheme to get money from the Union army in Mississippi by stealing and then selling back the Yankees' own mules.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:30:39 +0000thagood@fau.edu3084 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirginius MacCallum's First Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virginius-maccallums-first-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first of the two wives of Virginius MacCallum had a dowry comprised of a clock and "a dressed hog" (332). The narrative does not mention anything else about her, but what it says later about Buddy's mother suggests this wife was the mother of all the other sons.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:36:07 +0000sfr3085 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirginius MacCallum's Second Wifehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virginius-maccallums-second-wife
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative says very little about Virginius' deceased second wife, except that she was the mother of Buddy, the youngest son, whose "hazel eyes and reddish thatch" of hair were inherited from her.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:38:31 +0000sfr3086 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirginius MacCallum's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virginius-maccallums-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only detail about Virginius' father that the narrative provides - that he gave his son a mule when he first got married - establishes the lower class origins of the MacCallum family. The McCaslin family that this clan morphed into later in Faulkner's career had a decidedly more upper class background.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:41:59 +0000sfr3087 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negrohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In his anguished reflection on the way he ran away after his grandfather's death, Bayard reminds himself that "<em>You made a nigger sneak your horse out to you</em>" (333). This is all we learn about the man.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:50:46 +0000sfr3089 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRobert E. Leehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/robert-e-lee-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>General Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, in which Virginius MacCallum fought for four years.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:13:50 +0000sfr3094 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Stonewall Jacksonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-stonewall-jackson-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Thomas Jackson received the nickname "Stonewall" during the First Battle of Bull Run. Until his death in 1863 he was one of the Confederacy's most successful generals, and one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted commanders. Like many other southern veterans, Virginius MacCallum named one of his sons after the general.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:53:56 +0000sfr3095 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People of Ripleyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-ripley
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various inhabitants of the town from which Young Bayard catches the train that takes him into exile. When he looks at them at the end of Christmas day, he sees various "cheerful groups," including children playing with new presents, youths exploding fireworks, and travelers waiting with friends in the White and Colored waiting rooms at the station (369).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:08:10 +0000sfr3099 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Businessmen http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-businessmen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various inhabitants of the town in which Horace is living at the end of the novel. On his walk to the train station he sees and greets "merchants, another lawyer, his barber" and "a young man who was trying to sell him a car" (374).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:14:06 +0000sfr3100 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Little Girlshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-little-girls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are "the little girls next door" with whom Little Belle plays, and who listen "with respect coldly concealed" when she tells them about the "prettier town" in which she used to live with "her real daddy" (378).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:43:37 +0000sfr3108 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Professorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-professors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are Young Bayard's teachers at the University of Virginia, and Young John's at Princeton, who are informed about the trouble the twins got into in New York City.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:12:26 +0000sfr3113 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed New York Police Chiefhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-new-york-police-chief
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to Miss Jenny, it is "the chief of police in New York" who writes to Bayard and John's college instructors to complain about the young men's misbehavior in the city (381).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:16:01 +0000sfr3115 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Victimhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-victim
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As an example of the trouble her great-great-nephews used to get into as college students visiting New York, Jenny mentions "a policeman or a waiter or something" to whom Old Bayard paid fifteen hundred dollars in compensation for "something they did" (381).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:20:00 +0000sfr3116 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGranny Rosa Millardhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/granny-rosa-millard-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rosa Millard is the mother-in-law of Col. John Sartoris and the grandmother of Bayard Sartoris. She lives at the Sartoris plantation and is responsible for managing things while her son-in-law is away fighting in the Civil War. She is referred to as "Granny" both by Bayard and by Ringo. She is responsible for their moral upbringing - punishing them, for instance, when they utter profanity - but as the story depicts, she is willing to lie when she fears for their lives at the hands of Union soldiers searching for them.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:15:17 +0000thagood@fau.edu3144 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJobyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joby-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joby and his wife Louvinia are the head of the family of slaves who have served the Sartorises for several generations and who (with the exception of Loosh) stay loyal to them even after the Union army has passed through Yoknapatawpha, which gave most of the slaves in the area a chance to escape. Joby is the father of Philadelphy (not mentioned in this story), who is married to Loosh, making him Ringo's grandfather.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:19:55 +0000thagood@fau.edu3145 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel John Sartoris is the patriarch of the Sartoris family, and one of the major figures in the Yoknapatawpha fiction. He had two daughters (unnamed in Faulkner's works) and a son, Bayard. His wife apparently died during Bayard's childbirth (1849), so Sartoris was a widower by the time of the Civil War. He left his mother-in-law, Rosa Millard, in charge of his plantation during the war. Sartoris is only mentioned "The Unvanquished."</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:30:00 +0000thagood@fau.edu3146 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Forresthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-forrest
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A planter and slave trader before the war, Nathan Bedford Forrest served in the western theater and rose from Private to General. He is only mentioned in "The Unvanquished."</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:37:04 +0000thagood@fau.edu3147 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Smithhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-smith
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the story mentions "General Smith" twice (75, 79), it does not give his first name. There were two Union Generals with that last name who fought Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest in Mississippi at various times after the fall of Vicksburg. General William Sooy Smith was defeated by Forrest on February 22, 1864 in the Battle of Okolona, and did in fact fight Forrest "up and down the road to Memphis" (79). However, most scholars assume the General Smith in Faulkner's story is Andrew Jackson Smith, who fought Forrest at the Battle of Tupelo in July, 1864.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:40:12 +0000thagood@fau.edu3148 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Granthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-grant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While Grant does not personally appear in the novel, he commands the Union forces who do appear in Mississippi.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:45:51 +0000thagood@fau.edu3149 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAbraham Lincolnhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/abraham-lincoln
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America and is mentioned in "The Unvanquished."</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:50:21 +0000thagood@fau.edu3150 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLouviniahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/louvinia-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Louvinia serves as the cook for the Sartoris family. She and her husband Joby are the head of the family of slaves who have served the Sartorises for several generations and who (with the exception of Loosh) stay loyal to them even after the Union army has passed through Yoknapatawpha, which gave most of the slaves in the area a chance to escape. Louvinia is the mother of Philadelphy (not mentioned in this story), who is married to Loosh and is the mother of Ringo.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:54:30 +0000thagood@fau.edu3151 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel Newberryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-newberry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel G. W. Newberry is the Union colonel of the "--th Illinois Infantry." Rosa Millard tricks him into handing over mules.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:58:32 +0000thagood@fau.edu3152 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel Dickhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-dick
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although only mentioned in this story, Colonel Dick appears twice in the series of tales that together formed the novel <em>The Unvanquished</em>. In "Ambuscade," he is the unnamed officer who treats Miss Rosa as a lady even though he knows she is hiding Bayard and Ringo from his men. When Rosa goes to recover the family silver from the Yankees in "Raid," she asks for him by name, and he gives her the requisition for her property that, in "The Unvanquished," is the model for the fake requisitions that Rosa and Ringo create to acquire more mules.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:01:55 +0000thagood@fau.edu3153 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSnopes' Two Assistantshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/snopes-two-assistants
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These two men accompany Ab Snopes on the way to Colonel Newberry's encampment.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:04:45 +0000thagood@fau.edu3154 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Sentryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-sentry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Granny passes this unnamed sentry en route to her encounter with Colonel Newberry.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:06:45 +0000thagood@fau.edu3155 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Compson is the wife of General Compson (and so one of the grandmothers of Quentin, Caddy, Jason and Benjy in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>). In this story she is only mentioned as the lady who loaned Rosa Millard the hat, the shawl and the parasol that she wears or carries.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:43:55 +0000thagood@fau.edu3156 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDenny Hawkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/denny-hawk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Denny Hawk is Bayard's cousin, who lives in Alabama at Hawkhurst, a plantation comparable to the Sartorises'. He is younger than Bayard, so when Bayard compares his grandmother's size to Denny's he is emphasizing how small she seems.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:45:50 +0000thagood@fau.edu3157 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Soldiershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-soldiers-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These unnamed soldiers attempt to intercept Rosa Millard in her taking mules from Colonel Newberry's Union camp.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:47:51 +0000thagood@fau.edu3158 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Officerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-officer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed Union officer yells at Rosa Millard as he accuses her of scamming the Union Army.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:49:36 +0000thagood@fau.edu3159 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFortinbridehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/fortinbride
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although he is a Methodist, in the absence of the regular minister "Brother" Fortinbride officiates in the services that Rosa Millard organizes in the Episcopal Church. A private in Sartoris' regiment, he was seriously wounded in battle at the start of the war. Invalided back to Yoknapatawpha, he also helps Rosa distribute money and mules to the county's poor.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:54:51 +0000thagood@fau.edu3160 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Men, Women, and Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-men-women-and-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These unnamed people make up the white portion of the congregation of the Episcopal Church Rosa attends to confess her scam and disperse its profits to the community.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:56:47 +0000thagood@fau.edu3161 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Dozen" Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-dozen-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These African Americans are among the people in attendance at the Episcopal Church when Rosa distributes money and mules. In his narrative, Bayard refers to them as "the dozen niggers that had got free by accident and didn't know what to do about it" (84). Along with Ringo, they sit in the church's "slave gallery," which was built to hold 200 slaves, but now is otherwise deserted.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:58:44 +0000thagood@fau.edu3162 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoctor Worshamhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/doctor-worsham
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bayard recalls Doctor Worsham "in his stole beneath the altar" (84) at the Episcopal Church. Like many white Yoknapatawphans, he is likely away in the war.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:01:39 +0000thagood@fau.edu3163 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLooshhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/loosh-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Loosh is Philadelphy's husband (although she is not mentioned in this story), Ringo's uncle, and Joby's son. In "The Unvanquished," Bayard remembers hounds looking at food in Loosh's hands. Loosh himself is absent during the story almost certainly due to his escaping the plantation when Union troops are nearby (which is clearly suggested in other stories that make up <em>The Unvaquished</em>, especially "Retreat").</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:04:40 +0000thagood@fau.edu3164 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Lieutenanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-lieutenant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed Union lieutenant comes to the Sartoris plantation to reclaim some of the mules Rosa and her team stole from the army and then, ironically, gives her a voucher to cover the damage his men do to her plantation in the process, while pleading with her not to use this new voucher as a means to continue her campaign against the Yankees.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:07:30 +0000thagood@fau.edu3165 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Uncle" Buck McCaslinhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/uncle-buck-mccaslin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Like the Sartorises, the McCaslins are planters who were among the first white settlers of Yoknapatawtpha; they are at the center of the later novel, <em>Go Down, Moses</em>. "Uncle" is a courtesy title for Buck. The scene Bayard recalls in this story, of him and Ringo speaking with Buck and an unnamed Confederate captain in town shortly before the Yankees burned it, appears in "Retreat."</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:10:56 +0000thagood@fau.edu3166 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Confederate Captainhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-confederate-captain
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bayard recalls talking to this unnamed Confederate captain with Uncle Buck McCaslin.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:12:31 +0000thagood@fau.edu3167 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Cavalryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-cavalry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Apparently the last Union troops who appear in Jefferson during the War, this unit tracks Rosa Millard down to the Sartoris plantation to recover at least some of the dozens of stolen Yankee mules who remain in the county.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:36:04 +0000thagood@fau.edu3168 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Union Soldierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-union-soldier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed Union soldier laughs at Ringo's evasion of the Union lieutenant's questioning, to which the lieutenant responds violently.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:37:57 +0000thagood@fau.edu3169 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJefferson Davishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jefferson-davis
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jefferson Davis was the only President of the Confederate States of America. The unnamed Union lieutenant mentions him when yelling at Rosa Millard, saying, "God help the North if Davis and Lee had ever thought of the idea of forming a brigade of grandmothers . . ." (89).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:41:53 +0000thagood@fau.edu3170 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRobert E. Leehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/robert-e-lee-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>General Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The unnamed Union lieutenant mentions him when yelling at Rosa Millard, saying, "God help the North if Davis and Lee ever thought of the idea of forming a brigade of grandmothers . . ." (89).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:44:43 +0000thagood@fau.edu3171 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDrusilla Hawkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/drusilla-hawk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Drusilla is Bayard's cousin. Bayard finds out that she is with his father, Colonel Sartoris, "riding with the troop like she was a man" (93).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:48:33 +0000thagood@fau.edu3172 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLouisa Hawkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/louisa-hawk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bayard mentions his Aunt Louisa, who has revealed that Drusilla is fighting in the Civil War with his father, Colonel John Sartoris. Aunt Louisa lives at Hawkhurst, a plantation in Alabama comparable to the Sartoris plantation.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:50:16 +0000thagood@fau.edu3173 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negrohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed man was murdered and burned in his cabin by Grumby's Independents.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:52:14 +0000thagood@fau.edu3174 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGrumby's Ganghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/grumbys-gang-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Grumby's "Independents," as they are called, are "about fifty or sixty" men who appeared in Yoknapatawpha after the withdrawal of Union troops (93). They claim to be not unlike the irregular Confederate fighters that Colonel Sartoris leads, but they actually serve only themselves and wage a campaign of terror across the north Mississippi countryside.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:55:12 +0000thagood@fau.edu3175 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGrumbyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/grumby
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Grumby is the leader of Grumby's Independents, an irregular group intent on terrorizing the Mississippi countryside. Although Grumby carries a commission allegedly signed by General Nathan Bedford Forrest, suggesting that he is loyal to the Confederacy, in fact he is interested only in wreaking havoc to his and his company's own gain.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:56:33 +0000thagood@fau.edu3176 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-men-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Presumably too "old" to serve in the Confederate army, this group of "old men" once captured Grumby, but released him after he showed them what he claimed was a commission from General Forrest.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:01:00 +0000thagood@fau.edu3177 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Women and Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-women-and-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the female and African American inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha who feel threatened by the existence and activities of Grumby's Independents.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:02:53 +0000thagood@fau.edu3178 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Narratorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-narrator-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This man narrates the unusual appearance in his anonymous little town, which we have identified as Jefferson even though its name is deliberately obscured, of three barnstormers and the town's reaction to them and their stunts. He identifies himself as one of the town's older citizens, a "groundling," or non-flyer (197). Interestingly enough, the narrator qualifies his identification of Ginsfarb and Jake as Jews: "That is, [the spectators] knew at once that two of the strangers were of a different race from themselves, without being able to say what the difference was" (188).</p></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:13:13 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3275 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaptain Warrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/captain-warren
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Captain Warren seems like a well-to-do war veteran who has established himself comfortably in his home town; adults and children alike know him as "an ex-army flyer" who "was in the war" (185, 188), and he can afford to offer Jock his own overcoat when Jock's tears completely apart during the air show. He has an easy camaraderie with Jock, taking him to a café to talk and inviting him home to dinner; they apparently knew each other well enough "fourteen years ago" to take up immediate conversation upon meeting again (193).</p></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:18:58 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3276 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Small Boyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-small-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These boys are the first to appear at the airfield when the barnstormers arrive there after having performed a stunt over the town. Either too young to be in school or for some other reason able to roam the town at will, they are curious about the airplane and the aviators and ask questions that the adults can't or won't. Noticing that "two of the strangers were of a different race from themselves," one asks, "Were you in the war?" (188).</p></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:24:57 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3277 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These men, along with a group of small boys, are the first to reach the airplane after it lands at the town airport.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:28:09 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3278 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJockhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jock
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A former pilot in the Royal Flying Corps who has lost his civilian pilot's license, Jock is one of Faulkner's aviators who cannot stay away from airplanes. He is a tall, dashing figure whose stained clothing and unruly hair indicate that he doesn't care about his physical appearance; insomniac and perennially thirsty, he is emotionally tense and self-contained and won't accept offers of help from his former comrade-in-arms, Captain Warren.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:36:03 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3279 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJakehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jake
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Dressed in a suit and "handsome in a dull quiet way," Jake is "also a Jew" (like Ginsfarb). He looks to the narrator like "a man of infrequent speech" (unlike Ginsfarb). It's worth noting that although the narrator identifies the two men as Jews, he qualifies that by saying that "the spectators saw" that they "were of a different race from themselves, without being able to say what the difference was" (188). Jake drives the car during airshow the for Ginsfarb's death drop and death drag.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:45:09 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3280 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGinsfarbhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ginsfarb
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ginsfarb has supplied an illegal airplane license and signed on an unlicensed pilot, Jock, to run a barnstorming show. He is so greedy for money that he can't be trusted to negotiate the price for the show in the small towns they visit: "he'd stick out for his price too long" and so might well attract the attention of "anybody that might catch them" running the illegal show (195, 194). He is identified as "a Jew," like Jake, and as a man who limps, like Captain Warren.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:55:41 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3281 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Taxi Driverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-taxi-driver
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The taxi driver is one of the first townspeople to learn that someone jumps off an airplane in the newly arrived barnstorming show.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:12:02 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3283 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPresident Coolidgehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/president-coolidge
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Calvin Coolidge was the thirtieth President of the United States (1923-1929). Born in Vermont and graduated from the University of Amherst in Massachusetts, he was a fiscally conservative Republican who favored a laissez-faire economic policy; during his administration, tax rates for individuals and businesses were cut and regulatory practices on businesses were minimized. In "Death Drag," Ginsfarb blames President Coolidge's economic policies for "ruining" his former business (192) and forcing him into barnstorming.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:15:55 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3284 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVernonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/vernon
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Vernon owns the café where Captain Warren and Jock talk. He seems like an attentive and successful businessman; people know his place by his name, and Jock and Captain Warren seem comfortable there. At Jock's simple beckoning, Vernon serves Jock as much water as he can drink, and Jock is always thirsty.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:19:35 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3285 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCrowd at Air Showhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/crowd-air-show
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "good crowd" (198) watching the death drop and death drag at the barnstorming show react variously: some express disbelief and shock; some of the women faint. Children are also present, and there's a mix of town and country people. One "countrywoman" is repeatedly and vocally skeptical about the authenticity of the show: "You can't tell me" this or that, she says, but ultimately demanding to be taken "right home this minute" when the stunt starts to go wrong (199-200).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:26:04 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3286 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Harrishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-harris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Harris owns the car that Ginsfarb ostensibly rents for use in the air show. Ginsfarb has promised him a double payment if he uses the car, used the car, and skipped town without paying Harris, who "might get mad" at being cheated (205).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:30:53 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3287 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This boy is afraid to return Mr. Harris' car to him after Ginsfarb skips town without paying for its use in the air show. He seems enterprising enough to take a quarter for returning the car and smart enough to know that Mr. Harris "might get mad" at being cheated (205).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:32:57 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3288 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Blackhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-black
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Black drives two townsmen and the three barnstormers to town from the airfield; he lets the little boys present ride along on the car's running boards. All of this suggests his curiosity about people and his willingness to be a good neighbor and citizen.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:37:05 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3289 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoneshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jones
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In "Death Drag," Jock goes to see Jones, the secretary of the Fair Association, for permission to use the air field for a barnstorming show. It's unclear whether Jones' role as Secretary is voluntary or a paid position, but in either case it's a position in civic service, which locates Jones himself in the middle class of respectable "groundlings" in the story (188).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:50:04 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3387 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNewspaper Editorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/newspaper-editor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In "Death Drag," Ginsfarb goes to see the editor about printing handbills to advertise his barnstorming show.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:53:57 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3388 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHorace Benbowhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/horace-benbow-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Benbows are one of Yoknapatawpha's oldest families, and Horace and his sister Narcissa are the first major characters whom Faulkner imaginatively recycles as major characters in a new novel. Horace is now "forty-three years old" (15), ten years older than he was in <em>Flags in the Dust</em> (1929), and the attraction he earlier felt for Belle has soured during the decade they have been married, but he remains idealistic and squeamish, especially about sexuality.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:12:44 +0000sfr3403 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPopeyehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/popeye
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although Temple once calls him "that black man" (49), and Horace refers to "Popeye's black presence" (121), Popeye is white. A modern psychologist would label him a sociopath. Horace calls him one of "those Memphis folks" (21), the gangsters who buy homemade whiskey from Lee to sell in the speakeasies of the city. The novel describes him as someone with "that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin" (4). He was born on Christmas, in Pensacola, Florida.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:36:01 +0000sfr3404 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRuby Lamarhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ruby-lamar
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A former Memphis prostitute, Ruby appears in the novel as the devoted common-law wife of Lee Goodwin and conscientious mother of their very young child. Earlier she moved to San Francisco and New York to wait for Lee while he was serving overseas, and when he is sentenced to prison for killing fellow U.S. soldier in a fight over another woman, she not only moves to Leavenworth to be near him, but hires a lawyer for him, using her body as payment. When Lee is arrested for killing Tommy, she is prepared to pay Horace the same way.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:01:56 +0000sfr3405 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBelle Mitchell Benbowhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/belle-mitchell-benbow
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After divorcing Harry Mitchell in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, Belle has been married to Horace for a decade. Though she only appears directly in the narrative at the end (when Horace returns to Kinston), her discontent with Horace is as palpable as is his with her - but she does clearly expect him to come back to the marriage.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:19:13 +0000sfr3406 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLittle Belle Mitchellhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/little-belle-mitchell-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is the child of Belle's first marriage to Harry Mitchell. The novel does not say whether she kept her father's last name, but that seems likely. And although Horace still refers to her as Little Belle, his step-daughter is about 20 years old.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:32:23 +0000sfr3407 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLee Goodwinhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lee-goodwin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lee Goodwin's career as a soldier included service along the Mexican border and in the Philippines as a cavalry sergeant and, after doing time in Leavenworth for killing another soldier, as an infantry private in World War I. Sometime before the novel begins he has somehow made his way to Frenchman's Bend, where he lives in the Old Frenchman place with Ruby Lamar and their sickly infant, and earns his living making whiskey which he sells to locals and to the speakeasies of Memphis.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:44:58 +0000sfr3408 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNarcissa Benbow Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/narcissa-benbow-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Born into one of Yoknapatawpha's leading families and married into another, Narcissa Benbow Sartoris is a widow with a 10-year-old son when she appears for a second time in Faulkner's fiction. In <em>Flags in the Dust</em> the word the narrative continually associates with her is "serene." That word recurs in <em>Sanctuary</em>, but now it is paired with the word "stupid" (25). In the first novel she is largely passive, courted or stalked by men from three very different classes.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:23:08 +0000sfr3409 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJenny Du Prehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jenny-du-pre-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A woman of ninety" who lives "in a wheelchair" (23), and a much less prominent character than in either <em>Flags in the Dust</em> or "There Was a Queen" (where she plays the "queen"), Jenny Du Pre remains intellectually vigorous and conversationally tart. The only biological Sartoris left (except for Narcissa's 10-year-old son) she may be running the large family estate, but her main role in the novel is to offer incisive commentary on both Narcissa and Horace's behavior.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:35:39 +0000sfr3410 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGowan Stevenshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/gowan-stevens
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the years after <em>Sanctuary</em>, the Stevens family becomes increasingly prominent in the Yoknapatawpha fiction. There is no sign of this future development, however, in the way this novel depicts Gowan, the first member of the family Faulkner created. Gowan is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, and likes to claim that he learned there both how to hold his liquor and how to be a gentleman. In fact, in the novel his inability either to stay sober or to act chivalrously proves disastrous for Temple, and he is last heard from sneaking off into exile from Yoknapatawpha.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:49:35 +0000sfr3411 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPaphttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/pap
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>With eyes that "look like two clots of phlegm," "blind and deaf" and apparently voiceless and toothless as well (12), Pap is one of the most grotesque characters in Faulkner's fiction. Lee and Ruby make sure he gets fed, but despite his name, the novel gives no hint about "who he was kin to," as Horace puts it (110), or how he came to be at the Old Frenchman place. Horace facetiously speculates that he may have been there as long as the house itself. In his grotesqueness he does fit the gothic atmosphere of the place.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:09:27 +0000sfr3412 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTommyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tommy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Barefoot, "shambling," with "matted and foul" hair (10) and a "rapt empty gaze" (113), Tommy helps Lee make bootleg whiskey and, when Lee is not watching, drinks it too. He has been a familiar figure "for fifteen years about the countryside" (113), and occasionally in town, but no one in Yoknapatawpha knows his last name. His behavior disconcerts both Horace and Temple. Lee and Ruby both call him a "feeb" (9, 128). He is feeble-minded but kind-hearted. After Gowan deserts Temple, Tommy loses his life trying to protect her from Popeye.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:19:13 +0000sfr3413 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduElnorahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/elnora
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the narrative includes Elnora in its inventory of the "Negroes" who live at the Sartoris place (728), she is as much "white" as she is "black," and belongs to both the families that have lived on the plantation since it was built in the 1830s. On her mother's side she is a Strother, a family that served the Sartorises for many generations, first as slaves and then as servants. Like them, Elnora lives in a cabin behind the big house.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:01:05 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3414 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris-3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the founders of Yoknapatawpha County, and a legendary figure in the fictions set there, John Sartoris is still called "Marse John" by Elnora, decades after slavery was abolished and he himself was killed (732-33). Miss Jenny's brother, he was the first Sartoris to move to Mississippi, where he built the plantation on which the story takes place. He is also Elnora's (unacknowledged) father, which means that he is the ancestor, either by blood or by marriage, of all the major characters in the story.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:21:52 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3415 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Old) Bayard Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-bayard-sartoris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Colonel John Sartoris' "son Bayard" is also referred to in the story as "old Bayard" (727) and as "Colonel Sartoris" (739). In his case, "Colonel" is a purely formal title, since he is the one of the two Sartoris males who never served in an army. "Old Bayard" hearkens back to his appearance as a major character in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>. He is the narrator of <em>The Unvanquished</em>, which is organized around his growth from adolescence to manhood.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:37:23 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3416 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBenbow Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/benbow-sartoris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Born at the end of <em>Flags in the Dust</em> on the same day his father is killed in a plane crash, the 10-year-old son of Bayard and Narcissa is the last of the Sartorises. He was named Benbow by his mother as a tribute to her family ("Bory," her nickname for him, similarly gestures toward "Horry," her nickname in the earlier novel for her brother Horace).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:49:31 +0000sfr3417 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJohn Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/john-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>John Sartoris' son Bayard had one son, also named John. He is Miss Jenny's great-nephew, and the father of the twins Bayard and John (Johnny) Sartoris.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:53:51 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3418 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTemple Drakehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/temple-drake
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although Temple Drake is as central to <em>Sanctuary</em> as Horace Benbow, she is a much harder character to summarize. She is a 17-year-old college student, "a small childish figure no longer quite a child, not yet quite a woman" (89), the daughter of a judge trying on the contemporary role of flapper. Benbow Sartoris refers to her as Gowan Stevens' "jelly" (a slang term for a pretty girl, 25), but in fact she dates many young men, from both the college and the town.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:09:31 +0000sfr3420 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu(Young) Bayard Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/young-bayard-sartoris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Narcissa's husband and Miss Jenny's great-great-nephew, Bayard Sartoris died testing an experimental airplane near the Wright brothers' home in Ohio at the end of <em>Flags in the Dust</em>. In that novel, Bayard and Narcissa don't get engaged until after he returns from World War I.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:23:07 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3421 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSimon Strotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/simon-strother-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Identified as "Elnora's mother's husband" (727) to reinforce the point that John Sartoris rather than Simon was Elnora's biological father, he nonetheless played the part of her father in the life of the family, and so well that it is "possible," though not "probable," that no one ever knew she wasn't his child. Simon plays a fairly large, and essentially comic part in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, where he ends up "in the graveyard" after being found murdered in the cabin of a much younger woman.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:10:57 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3422 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaspeyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/caspey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Caspey is only mentioned in the story, when he is identified as "Elnora's husband" (727), although In <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, where he appears in the narrative, he is Elnora's brother. In that novel he returns from in France and World War I with a lot of anger against the place he is supposed to occupy in the region's Jim Crow system, though after an altercation with Old Bayard Sartoris, he resumes his role as a loyal servant. Neither the novel nor the story provide details about the robbbery or burglary for which he has been sentenced to the penitentiary.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:23:18 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3423 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoby http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joby-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joby is Elnora's son and the (presumably) older brother of Isom and Saddie. The only information we have about him is that he has "gone to Memphis to wear fine clothes on Beale Street" (727). He plays no role in the plot of the story. (There is another "Joby" among the slaves and then servants on the Sartoris plantation, but that one is this one's great-grandfather. He is a character in <em>The Unvanquished</em>.)</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:31:03 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3424 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirginia Du Prehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virginia-du-pre
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "Queen" of this story, Virginia Du Pre nee Sartoris is a force to be reckoned with for over ninety years. She could also be called the "Unvanquished" from the title of Faulkner's second novel about the Sartorises. When Elnora talks about "Her," her tone of voice capitalizes the pronoun (732). "The last of the Carolina family" (728), whose father and husband were killed during the Civil War, in 1869 she made her own way across the defeated South carrying panes of colored glass and flower cuttings from the family's ancestral home like sacred relics.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:42:04 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3425 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNarcissa Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/narcissa-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "large woman in her thirties" (738), Narcissa Sartoris, nee Benbow, is descended from one of the leading Yoknapatawpha families. From a sociological perspective, there is no basis for Elnora to call her "trash" (734). On her first direct appearance in the story she appears (perhaps just to Miss Jenny) as displaying "something of that heroic quality of statuary" (738).</p></div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:08:40 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3426 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJohnny Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/johnny-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This John Sartoris is the great-grandson of Colonel John, and the twin brother of Young Bayard. His great aunt Miss Jenny thinks of him as "Johnny" (728). The twins were both serving in the British air force when John was shot down over France in 1918.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:16:33 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3427 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBenbow Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/benbow-sartoris-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Born at the end of <em>Flags in the Dust</em> on the same day that his father, (Young) Bayard, dies, ten-year-old Benbow is the last of the Sartorises. Although Miss Jenny persists in calling him "Johnny" in keeping with Sartoris family tradition (728), his mother Narcissa gave him her family name instead. Her nickname for him, "Bory," recalls her nickname in <em>Flags in the Dust</em> for her brother Horace, i.e. "Horry." Unlike his paternal ancestors, he remains a minor figure in the Yoknapatawpha story.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:22:15 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3428 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Carolina Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-carolina-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The father of Miss Jenny and Colonel John was apparently a great planter in one of the Carolinas. He was killed fighting in the Civil War.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:26:56 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3429 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIsomhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/isom-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Elnora's son Isom is one of her two children who continue the family pattern of service to the Sartorises. His Strother ancestors were slaves who came from Carolina to Mississippi with the first John Sartoris (who is also one of Isom's grandfathers). Isom apparently still lives with his mother in the cabin those ancestors occupied, and "tends the grounds" of the Sartoris estate (728).</p></div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:32:21 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3430 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSaddiehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/saddie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of Elnora's three children, Saddie works as Miss Jenny's caretaker, "tend[ing] her as though she were a baby" (728). She sleeps in the big house, "on a cot beside Virginia Du Pre's bed." Genealogically, she is Miss Jenny's great-niece, the illegitimate granddaughter of her brother John, though that relationship is not discussed by any of the characters.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:34:53 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3431 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Yankeeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-yankees
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Both Miss Jenny's father and her husband were killed during the Civil War, by the men whom she refers to as "Them goddamn Yankees" (733).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:37:34 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3432 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Sartoris http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-sartoris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the "Cal-lina" house she was living in was burned down by the Yankees (732), the mother of Miss Jenny and John Sartoris presumably survived the Civil War. That, at least, would explain why it is not until 1869 that Miss Jenny (who was living with her) moved to Mississippi. She is never given a first name.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:43:31 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3433 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Sartoris Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-sartoris-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents "the chillen" Elnora refers to when, describing Jennie Du Pre's 1869 arrival at the Sartoris plantation for her two children, she says that "Marse John and the chillen" were waiting for her on the veranda (733). John Sartoris had two daughters in addition to his son Bayard. Faulkner never names these daughters, who remain elusive parts of the Sartoris family. Based on <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, in 1869 they would have been older than the word "children" suggests, but it's hard to guess who else Elnora could mean.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:51:12 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3434 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mother of Elnorahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mother-elnora
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Simon Strother's wife and Elnora's mother. Until the end of the Civil War, she would have been a slave. Based on what the narrative says about Old Bayard as Elnora's "half-brother" (727), she presumably had a sexual relationship of some kind with Colonel John Sartoris - though there is no suggestion of this in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, where she is named Euphrony.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:59:11 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3435 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Brother of Narcissahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-brother-narcissa
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Though only mentioned in this story as "her brother" (735), Narcissa's brother Horace is one of the central characters in <em>Flags in the Dust</em> and <em>Sanctuary</em>, the two novels that form the imaginative background to this story. As explained in the first of those books, he was "also in France" during the First World War as a noncombatant, working with the YMCA.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:04:28 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3436 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Federal Agenthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-federal-agent
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The F.B.I. did not begin investigating bank robberies until the Depression, a decade after the Sartoris bank was robbed. But Faulkner is almost certainly thinking of the Bureau when he has Narcissa identify the man with whom she has sex as "a Federal agent" who came into possession of the letters she is anxious to get back while pursuing "the man who had robbed the bank" (740). The narrative describes him as "bald" and "youngish" with "a clever face"; Miss Jenny labels him a "Jew" and a "Yankee" (736), and refuses to sit at the dinner table with him.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:10:18 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3437 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Letter Writerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-letter-writer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Identified in this story only as "that book-keeper in Colonel Sartoris' bank" and "the man who robbed the bank" (739, 740), Byron is one of the many cousins whom Flem Snopes brings into Jefferson from Frenchman's Bend. His miserable attempt to court the aristocratic Narcissa Benbow by writing her obscene, anonymous letters figures prominently in the narrative of <em>Flags in the Dust</em>.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:19:39 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com3438 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDu Prehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/du-pre
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we know about Miss Jenny's husband is that his last name was Du Pre and he was killed by "the Yankees" during the Civil War (732).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:50:02 +0000sfr3439 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Tulane Studenthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-tulane-student
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In telling the men at the Old Frenchman place about his troubles with Little Belle's behavior, Horace mentions a young man whom she apparently met on the train coming "home from school" four days before the novel begins (14). She defends her relationship with him by telling Horace that "he goes to Tulane" (14). Though Horace's objectivity on the subject of Little Belle is not to be trusted, this particular unnamed young man seems to be one of several or perhaps many whom she has brought home; Horace sums them up as "Louis or Paul or Whoever" (13).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:48:49 +0000sfr3454 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLee and Ruby's Sonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lee-and-rubys-son
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator tells us that Lee and Ruby's child is "not a year old" the first time he appears in the story - sleeping in a box behind the stove, where "the rats cant get to him" (18). Ruby is carrying him or caring for him throughout the rest of the novel. His appearance is another of the novel's unsettling elements. When Horace looks at him lying on a bed, for example, the child is "flushed and sweating, its curled hands above its head in the attitude of one crucified, breathing in short, whistling gasps" (135).</p></div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:14:51 +0000sfr3455 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHerschell Joneshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/herschell-jones
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jenny tells Horace that the last "young man" who tried courting Narcissa was "that Jones boy; Herschell" (24). From that it sounds as if Herschell belonged to a family the Benbows and Sartorises would have known socially, but beyond that we know nothing about him.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:36:38 +0000sfr3456 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Town Boys"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-town-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Three "town boys" appear as individuals in Chapter 4. This icon refers to the aggregate group of young men who do not go to the University but do have access to cars which make them desirable dates for Temple on "week nights," between the dances and other weekend social activities on the campus (29). Excluded at those times, these "boys" can only watch Temple from a (socio-economic) distance. For their part, the "men" who are "students in the University" look down upon the boys, with their "pomaded heads" and "upturned collars" (29).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:46 +0000sfr3457 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed University Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-university-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the male "students in the University" who date Temple on the weekends. The narrative describes them almost entirely in terms of their clothes - "knickers and bright pull-overs," or at dances the formally clad "black collegiate arms" and pairs of "black sleeves" (29).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:04:21 +0000sfr3458 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Town Boy"(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-town-boy1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first of the three town boys who spend time with Gowan is repeatedly labeled "the first," because we hear his voice first. He wants to know who "that son bitch" driving Temple away from the dance is (30). We hear the class resentments in that voice he tells his friend Doc things like "you're not good enough to go to a college dance." But after Gowan offers the three a ride, he is willing to lead him to Luke's and then to the Shack, to buy and then drink whiskey.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:30:41 +0000sfr3466 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDochttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/doc
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Of the three "town boys" who spend time with Gowan, Doc is the only one given a name. He is also the most vividly characterized. He spreads broken glass across the road to show his resentment against the class system, waves a woman's panty around to establish his credentials as a man about town, makes fun of Gowan's references to "Virginia" to his face, and at first even refuses to drink with him. Not even the whiskey dissolves his grudge.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:49:52 +0000sfr3467 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Town Boy"(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-town-boy2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator calls this young man "the last" and "the third" of the three Oxford town boys who spend time drinking with Gowan on Saturday night. Of the three, he seems the least affected either by all they drink or by the way Gowan boasts about his status as a "gentleman" (34).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:55:24 +0000sfr3468 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLukehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/luke
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Luke lives and makes moonshine whiskey half a mile outside of Oxford, up a steep slope alongside "the road to Taylor" (32).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:51:12 +0000sfr3500 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Waiterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-waiter-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At the "confectionery-lunchroom" called the Shack, the "man in a soiled apron" who brings fixings to Gowan may be the owner as well as a waiter and cook (33). Gowan calls him "Cap" (short for captain?), but since he has never been to the Shack before that is obviously a generic name.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:59:02 +0000sfr3501 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Station Porterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-station-porter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "negro with a broom" whom Gowan encounters when he wakes up in the Oxford train station is astonished at the young white man's disheveled appearance (35).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:07:08 +0000sfr3502 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Train Officialhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-train-official
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "official" on the train who "shakes his fist" at Temple for jumping off at Taylor is probably a conductor.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:11:05 +0000sfr3503 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men in Overallshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-overalls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we know about the men lounging at the Taylor station who watch Temple as she gets off the train is that they are "chewing slowly" (presumably tobacco) and wearing overalls (36).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:15:46 +0000sfr3504 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Band Membershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-band-members
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When she thinks of the baseball game in Starkville that she is missing, Temple imagines, briefly, "the band, the yawning glitter of the bass horn" (37).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:23:01 +0000sfr3505 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Baseball Playershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-baseball-players
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When she thinks of the baseball game in Starkville that she is missing, Temple imagines "the green diamond dotted with players." The description of their playing is unmistakably in Faulkner's words, however, not hers: "encouraging one another with short meaningless cries, plaintive, wary and forlorn" (37).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:26:40 +0000sfr3506 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJudge Drakehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/judge-drake
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"My father's a judge," Doc says in "lilting falsetto," doing a bitter imitation of Temple's habit of referring to her family's status (30). This is the first time Judge Drake is mentioned in the novel. When Temple herself first thinks about him, amid the threatening surroundings at the Old Frenchman place, she imagines him "sitting on the porch at home, his feet on the rail" (51). When he finally appears in the story to reclaim her, he has "neat white hair and a clipped moustache like a bar of hammered silver against his dark skin," and is wearing an "immaculate linen suit" (288).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:59:25 +0000sfr3507 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Gardenerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-gardener
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Temple thinks about her father "sitting on the porch at home," she imagines that he is "watching a negro mow the lawn" (51).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:04:32 +0000sfr3508 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Drake Brother(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drake-brother3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of Temple Drake's brothers is a "newspaper man" (54). But when he finally appears in the narrative, at the end of Lee Goodwin's trial, he is indistinguishable from the other three: one of the "younger men" who move "like soldiers" when they escort Temple out of the courtroom (289).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:38:22 +0000sfr3509 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Drake Brother(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drake-brother1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two brothers of Temple Drake who "are lawyers" (54), and one of the four who appear at the end of Lee Goodwin's trial as the "younger men" who move "like soldiers" when they escort Temple out of the courtroom (289).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:41:36 +0000sfr3510 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Drake Brother(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drake-brother2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two brothers of Temple Drake who "are lawyers" (54), and one of the four who appear at the end of Lee Goodwin's trial as the "younger men" who move "like soldiers" when they escort Temple out of the courtroom (289).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:43:34 +0000sfr3511 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHubert Drakehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hubert-drake
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The youngest of the four Drake sons, and the only brother of Temple given a name. He is actually given two: Hubert and Buddy. He told Temple "that if he ever caught me with a drunk man, he'd beat the hell out of me" (55). He is a student at Yale, but is there with his brothers at the end of Lee Goodwin's trial as one of the the "four younger men" who move "like soldiers" when they escort Temple out of the courtroom (289).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:48:57 +0000sfr3512 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Governor of Mississippihttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-governor-mississippi
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>No name is mentioned when Temple tells Ruby that the "gu-governor comes to our house" for dinner (56). The real Governor of Mississippi when <em>Sanctuary</em> was published was Theodore G. Bilbo, an outspoken white supremacist - but it's not necessary to believe that Faulkner intended readers to think of specifically of him. Temple's intention seems to be simply to assert her caste status as a shield.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:56:59 +0000sfr3513 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Residents of Oxfordhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-residents-oxford
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various people who see Temple in the evenings, as she hurries to or from a date. The group includes "townspeople taking after-supper drives," "bemused faculty-members" and graduate students (28).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:22:59 +0000sfr3514 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed University Deanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-university-dean
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to simply as "the Dean," the administrator who puts Temple on academic probation "for slipping out at night" (57), i.e. for dating on weeknights, is presumably the Dean of Women Students.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:26:58 +0000sfr3515 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Girlhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-girl
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the girl who told the Dean that Temple was "slipping out at night," in retaliation for the fact that Temple went out "with a boy she liked" (57).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:34:40 +0000sfr3516 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Boy(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-boy1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of apparently many suitors and dates, this boy is the one that Temple went out with sometime before the story begins, making the unnamed girl who liked him mad because, Temple says, afterwards "he never asked her for another date" (57).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:40:28 +0000sfr3517 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Boy(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-boy2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the "boy," "at school," who is in Dumfries when Popeye stops there with Temple in his car. The reader never sees him, but Temple says "he was almost looking right at me!" (140).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:45:31 +0000sfr3518 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Granthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-grant-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Grant rose to the rank of Major General during the fighting in the western theater of the Civil War, and was in command of the "Vicksburg campaign" of 1863. According to the narrative, he "came through the county" of Yoknapatawpha during that campaign (8).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:53:15 +0000sfr3519 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFrankhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/frank
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Though her family is waiting to kill Ruby's boyfriend to prevent their elopement, Frank insists they go back to her house and tell her father about their plans. When Ruby tries to stand between Frank and the shotgun her father is holding, he pushes her out of harm's way, "and father shot him." As Ruby says, Frank "wasn't a coward" (58). He also has a "yellow buggy," which Ruby's brother resents enough to suggest that he might be more prosperous than her family.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:12:56 +0000sfr3522 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRuby's Brotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/rubys-brother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Like her father, Ruby's brother is determined to keep her apart from Frank, the man she loves. He tells his sister he's going to kill him, "in his yellow buggy" (58). His ambush is foiled by her.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:22:09 +0000sfr3523 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRuby's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/rubys-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ruby's father's last name may be "Lamar." Popeye calls Ruby by that name once (10). What we can say for sure about her father is that he "runs his family" very aggressively, cursing his son for wanting to be the one to kill Ruby's boyfriend Frank and then shooting Frank himself (58). He calls his daughter a "whore" for wanting to elope.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:30:27 +0000sfr3524 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed U.S. Soldierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-us-soldier
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We know nothing about this man beyond the story Ruby tells at different times to Temple and Horace, about how when Lee was stationed in the Philippines he "killed another soldier over one of those nigger women" (59).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:41:58 +0000sfr3525 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Filipino Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-filipino-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ruby calls this woman a "nigger" when telling Temple about how Lee killed another American soldier in a fight over her (59), but since Ruby would be likely to use that term for any Hispanic, it probably tells us little or nothing about the woman herself. And we only know her from Ruby's story.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:46:19 +0000sfr3526 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Lawyer(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-lawyer2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first Leavenworth lawyer whom Ruby hires to secure Lee's release from prison allows her to pay him with sex, but never tells her he cannot do "anything for a federal prisoner" (277).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:56:01 +0000sfr3527 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Lawyer(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-lawyer1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The second lawyer Ruby hires to secure Lee's release from Leavenworth may work in Kansas or New York City - the narrative is unclear. She pays this second lawyer with money, "all the money I had saved" working in New York during World War I (278), and he finds a "Congressman to get [Lee] out."</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:02:27 +0000sfr3528 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Congressmanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-congressman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first time Ruby tells how the lawyer she hired got Lee out of prison, she says he "got a congressman" (59). The second time, she says he got "a Congressman" (278). Neither time does she go into any more details about him.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:06:33 +0000sfr3529 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Woman in Alleyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-woman-alley
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ruby tells Temple that she once gave away a fur coat "to a woman in an alley" (62). Ruby lived in many different places, so there's no way to tell what city the alley might be in.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:22:50 +0000sfr3530 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/van
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Van is one of the gangsters who works with Popeye to get Lee's whiskey from Yoknapatawpha to Memphis. He is introduced into the narrative by his "harsh, derisive laugh" (53). He stirs up the menace at the Old Frenchman's by fighting with both Gowan and Lee over Temple, and ripping open the raincoat she is wearing, but drives away with a shipment after that.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:30:21 +0000sfr3531 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Maidshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-maids
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Presumably referring to her previous life as a prostitute in various cities, Ruby mentions the black maids to whom she used to give nightdresses "after one night" wearing them (75).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:35:32 +0000sfr3532 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTullhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tull
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Tull is a Frenchman Bend farmer who reappears often in Faulkner's fiction. In this novel his place is two miles away from the Old Frenchman place. Gowan goes there to hire a car. After Tommy is killed, Ruby also goes there and phones the Sheriff "with Tull's family sitting about the table, about the Sunday dinner" (105).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:54:40 +0000sfr3533 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTull's Familyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tulls-family
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative simply refers to the people eating dinner when Ruby comes in to use the phone as "Tull's family" (105). The story "Spotted Horses" (which was published a few months after <em>Sanctuary</em>) is a bit more forthcoming, listing "his wife and three daughters and Mrs. Tull's aunt." On that basis we identify the gender of the family as "female."</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:03:21 +0000sfr3534 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMitchellhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mitchell
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "man named Mitchell" is given the first name Harry in <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, where he is portrayed as both a conventionally jovial Jefferson businessman and Belle's harried husband.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:15:33 +0000sfr3535 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mexican Girlshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mexican-girls
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the novel's narrative these women are displaced twice: Horace is at the Sartoris place when he tells the story of Lee Goodwin at the Old Frenchman place telling him about the "Mexican girls" he met while serving as a sergeant in the U.S. cavalry (109).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:22:31 +0000sfr3536 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Frenchmanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-frenchman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Described in Faulkner's fiction as one of the first white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the man other people in Yoknapatawpha called the "Frenchman" created a large-scale cotton plantation in the southern part of Yoknapatawpha sometime around 1830-1840, confirming Horace's date when he refers to "that old Frenchman that built the house a hundred years ago" (110). But in other texts Faulkner adds that this foreigner may not have actually have been from France. Nor is it ever made explicit how or why his plantation failed at some point after the Civil War.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:31:41 +0000sfr3537 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduIsomhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/isom-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Not called by his name until the second time he appears in <em>Sanctuary</em>, Isom (or "the negro driver," as he is referred to at first, 110) is the youngest member of the family that has served the Sartoris family since slavery days. In <em>Flags in the Dust</em> his character is much more fully developed; in <em>Sanctuary</em> he is in fact just "the negro driver."</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:29:44 +0000sfr3550 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCountry People in Jeffersonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/country-people-jefferson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various farmers and their wives who are described coming into Jefferson on the weekend. It includes the three women whom Horace sees getting down from a wagon and "donning various finery" on the street in front of his house, as well as "the women on foot, black and white, unmistakable by the unease of their garments," and the men "in slow overalls and khaki" who move in crowds through the town square and stand in throngs "listening" to the music playing on radios and phonographs in record and drug stores (111, 112).</p></div></div></div>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:39:42 +0000sfr3551 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Merchants and Professional Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-merchants-and-professional-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Horace goes downtown on his second day in Jefferson, he renews his acquaintance with the men he meets around the courthouse: "merchants and professional men," most of whom "remembered him as a boy" (112). They are not otherwise characterized.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:44:01 +0000sfr3552 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boys and Youthshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boys-and-youths
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents both the boys "with and without schoolbooks" who press against the window at the undertaker's parlor to get a glimpse of Tommy's body, and the "bolder" young men of the town who go inside the building, "in twos and threes," for a closer look (112).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:48:21 +0000sfr3553 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Coronerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-coroner-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Simply called "the coroner," this man may also be the undertaker, but all one can say for certain is that he "sits over" Tommy's body as it lays in the funeral parlor trying unsuccessfully to learn his last name (113).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:51:20 +0000sfr3554 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Murdererhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-murderer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative does not name this man, except as the "murderer" (114) who is awaiting his execution in the jail when Goodwin is locked up there. He killed his wife with a razor. According to another unnamed black character, he is the "bes ba'ytone singer in nawth Mississippi!" His constant singing of "spirituals" and blues songs in jail, accompanied by a "chorus" of other blacks outside the window, provides a kind of soundtrack for the novel's main narrative (114-15).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:28:13 +0000sfr3557 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Murder Victimhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-murder-victim
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While it never gives her a name, or explains why her husband killed her, the narrative does provide a very vivid description of this woman's murder.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:31:49 +0000sfr3558 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negroes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the Negroes who gather outside the jail in the evenings and sing with the man inside awaiting execution. They wear "natty, shoddy suits and sweat-stained overalls" (114), and have "work-thickened shoulders" (124).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:37:31 +0000sfr3559 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boys and Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boys-and-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is a difficult group to label. It represents the "one or two ragamuffin boys or negroes" who "sometimes" visit the convicted murderer and on some of those times bring him "baskets," presumably containing food (115).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:41:19 +0000sfr3560 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Garage Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-garage-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the narrative refers to them at one point as "the garage men" (127), the "white men sitting in titled chairs along the oil-foul wall of the garage across the street" from the jail during the day are associated with only two activities: listening to the convicted murderer sing and chewing, presumably tobacco (115).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:44:36 +0000sfr3561 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHorace and Narcissa's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/horace-and-narcissas-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Narcissa evokes the memory of her and her brother's "father and mother" when she expresses her outrage that Horace is allowing Ruby to stay in the family house in Jefferson (118).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:57:05 +0000sfr3562 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHorace and Narcissa's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/horace-and-narcissas-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Narcissa evokes the memory of her and her brother's "father and mother" when she expresses her outrage that Horace is allowing Ruby to stay in the family house in Jefferson (118).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:05:21 +0000sfr3563 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Traveling Salesmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-traveling-salesmen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Drummers," as traveling salesmen were called, appear three times in the novel sitting in chairs or standing or getting into a "bus" along the curb outside the hotel in Jefferson, first when Horace gets a room for Ruby, again the morning after he speaks with Temple, and then again when he waits in the hotel for a train to take him back to Kinston (124).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:16:42 +0000sfr3564 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Hotel Porterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-hotel-porter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "negro porter of the hotel" where Ruby stays (135) briefly appears in three separate scenes: showing Ruby to her room in Chapter 16, fetching Horace to the hotel in Chapter 17, and showing Horace where he can wait for a train in Chapter 29. Faulkner may have been thinking of one man in all three cases, or two, or three.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:22:10 +0000sfr3565 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Customers of Goodwinhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-customers-goodwin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Horace refers to Lee's "good customers," the men of Yoknapatawpha who had regularly bought whiskey illegally from him but turned on him once he was arrested (127).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:29:24 +0000sfr3566 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Baptist Ministerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-baptist-minister-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On the Sunday after Lee was arrested, the local Baptist minister uses his evil ways as the occasion for a sermon. According to the report Horace heard, Lee was condemned "not only as a murderer" but for having a child "begot in sin" (128).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:34:06 +0000sfr3567 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGowan Stevens' Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/gowan-stevens-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Gowan's mother appears in the narrative after he himself has fled from Yoknapatawpha and written Narcissa a letter that Jenny Du Pre makes fun of. She and Mrs. Stevens would have known each other as members of the county's upper class, but Jenny seems to be making fun of her too when she expresses a worry that Gowan's mother may ring the doorbell at the Sartoris mansion, perhaps looking for her runaway son.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:39:58 +0000sfr3568 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Doctor(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-doctor1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After her child has a bad night in the hotel, Ruby says, "I finally got the doctor" (135). The doctor who appears in all three previous Yoknapatawpha novels is named Peabody, described as the fattest man in Yoknapatawpha County, but this doctor is someone else, "a young man with a small black bag" whom Horace obviously has never seen before (135).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:56:17 +0000sfr3569 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People outside Dumfrieshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-outside-dumfries
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As Popeye and Temple approach the town of Dumfries, they begin seeing other people on the road, though the narrative refers to them in a complex series of phrases. In some cases it cites the means of transportation rather than the people: "pleasure cars Sunday-bent," "Fords and Chevrolets," "now and then a wagon or a buggy" (139). The only occupants specifically mentioned are "swathed women" in the "occasional larger car" and "wooden-faced country people" in trucks (139).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:19:11 +0000sfr3570 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFilling Station Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/filling-station-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This clerk works inside the "dingy confectionery" in Dumfries where Popeye buys gas, cigarettes, candy and a sandwich (140).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:23:42 +0000sfr3571 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFilling Station Mechanichttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/filling-station-mechanic
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man who fills Popeye's car up in Dumfries is called a "mechanic"; he indicates which way Temple went when she got out of the car (140).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:26:39 +0000sfr3572 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Counter Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-counter-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As Popeye and Temple drive along the street with Miss Reba's on it, they see inside a diner "a fat man in a dirty apron with a toothpick in his mouth" (142).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:00:40 +0000sfr3573 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Young Negresshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-young-negress
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As Popeye and Temple drive along the street with Miss Reba's on it, they see on the "second storey gallery" of one of the "dingy" houses "a young negress in her underclothes" (142). Her undress and the location of the building suggest she is a prostitute, but that is not made definite.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:04:31 +0000sfr3574 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMinniehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/minnie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Minnie works for Miss Reba as a maid and also a kind of confidant. Either because Popeye pays her, or because she is afraid of him, she also looks after Temple during the time she spends in the brothel.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:08:03 +0000sfr3575 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduReba Rivershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/reba-rivers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Proud to be known to everyone in Memphis as the owner of her brothel, Miss Reba is a colorful character. When readers first meet her she is carrying a "rosary" in one hand and a "tankard" of beer in the other (144). Fat, asthmatic, church-going and hard-drinking, with some pretensions to gentility but no illusions about life, she respects Popeye and is willing to look after Temple for his sake. The great love of her life, someone named Mr. Binford, has died, and in tribute to the 11 years they lived together "like two doves" she has named her two dogs Mr. Binford and Miss Reba (255).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0000sfr3576 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Binfordhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-binford
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Binford is the name of both Miss Reba's male dog and (as Minnie puts it) "Miss Reba's man." Explaining the dog's name, Minnie tells Temple that the man "was landlord here eleven years until he die about two years ago" (154). In a sentimental mood after attending Red's funeral, Miss Reba herself says "he was such a good man," "a free-hearted spender than never give her a hour's uneasiness or a hard word." Still according to her, they lived together "like two doves" (254-55).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:27:09 +0000sfr3577 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Johnshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-johns
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>To hear Miss Reba tell it, the men who have patronized her brothel during the 20 years she's been running it include "some of the biggest men in Memphis" - "bankers, lawyers, doctors" as well as "two police captains" (143). When Horace visits the brothel to talk with Temple, Reba tells him that she's done business with many lawyers, including "the biggest lawyer in Memphis" - and when she adds that this man weighed 280 pounds and "had his own special bed made and sent down here," "biggest" acquires an additional meaning (211).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:30:09 +0000sfr3578 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Police Commissionerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-police-commissioner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Miss Reba's description of the police commissioner who patronized her brothel is memorable: "a man fifty years old, seven foot tall, with a head like a peanut." Her description of his behavior with one of her prostitute is even more unforgettable: when his cronies broke into the room "they found him buck-nekkid, dancing the highland fling" (143).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:34:04 +0000sfr3579 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Married Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-married-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to Miss Reba, among the women who have sought attention from Popeye over the years is "a little married woman" who "offered Minnie twenty-five dollars just to get him into the room" (145).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:40:15 +0000sfr3580 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoctor Quinnhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/doctor-quinn
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A fattish man with thin, curly hair," whose eyeglasses seem to be worn only "for decorum's sake" (149), Dr. Quinn treats Temple when she first arrives at Miss Reba's. Initially he refused to make a house call on Sunday, but Reba reminds him that she "can put him in jail three times over" (148).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:44:46 +0000sfr3581 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Women(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-women1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lying in the dark at Miss Reba's, Temple remembers being in her dorm in college, talking with other women students as they all dressed for a dance. One of them is accused by the others of knowing too much about sex and another, "the youngest one," is made sick by the conversation (152).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:56:27 +0000sfr3582 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Coupleshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-couples
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Temple thinks about "couples" back in Oxford on two separate occasions. As evening falls at the Old Frenchman Place she thinks about "the slow couples strolling" to supper at school (51). Lying in the dark at Miss Reba's, Temple thinks about "couples strolling toward church" on Sunday morning (152).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:58:32 +0000sfr3583 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men in Squarehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-square
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The novel refers to men in the square several times. In Chapter 17 they are seen "drifting back toward the square after supper" (134). In Chapter 19, looking through the window of Ruby's hotel room, Horace can see "men pitching dollars back and forth between holes in the bare earth beneath and locusts and water oaks" of courthouse square (161).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:11:08 +0000sfr3584 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Train Passenger(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-train-passenger1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only occupants of the waiting room at the train station when Horace gets there early in the morning are a couple. The man is characterized by the "overalls" he wears and the "rumpled coat" he carries (167).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:18:49 +0000sfr3585 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Train Passenger(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-train-passenger2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The only occupants of the waiting room at the train station when Horace gets there early in the morning are a couple. The woman wears a "calico dress," a "dingy shawl and a new hat" and carries both a parcel and "a straw suitcase" (167).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:21:13 +0000sfr3586 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Train Passengershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-train-passengers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On the "white only" cars of first two trains that Horace takes during his journey to Oxford he sees a number of passengers. The terms used to describe them are either lurid or unpleasant. The sleeping ones lie with throats turned upward "as though waiting the stroke of knives." When some awake their "puffy faces" and "dead eyes" evoke "the paling ultimate stain of a holocaust." A crying child is said to be "wailing hopelessly." And the man beside whom Horace finds a seat immediately "leans forward and spits tobacco juice between his knees" (168).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:28:22 +0000sfr3587 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Train Passengershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-train-passengers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Standing in the aisle of a "whites only" train car on his way to Oxford, Horace can see into "the jim crow car" coupled to it. What he sees are "hatted cannonballs [the heads of the black passengers] swaying in unison" amid the "gusts of talk and laughter" (168).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:32:53 +0000sfr3588 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu"Shack"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/shack
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On board the third and last train Horace takes on his way to Oxford are two "young men in collegiate clothes with small cryptic badges on their shirts and vests (168). One is unnamed, but he calls the other one "Shack," presumably a nickname derived from the confectionery near the college campus (169). "Shack" whistles a "broken dance rhythm" that the narrator calls "meaningless, vertiginous" (169-70).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:45:20 +0000sfr3589 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Boy(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-boy3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On board the third and last train Horace takes on his way to Oxford are two "young men in collegiate clothes with small cryptic badges on their shirts and vests (168). This one is unnamed, but together with "Shack" he outwits the train conductor and jokes crudely about women.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:48:39 +0000sfr3590 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Women(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-women2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On the train that Horace takes to Oxford he sees "two girls with painted small faces and scant bright dresses" (169).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:50:50 +0000sfr3591 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Middle-Aged Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-middle-aged-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On the train to Oxford are "three middle-aged women" who cannot find seats, because of the "gay rudeness" of the college students who pushed into the car ahead of them (169).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:53:39 +0000sfr3592 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Conductorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-conductor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Calling "Tickets" with "plaintive, fretful cries, like a bird" (169), the conductor is fooled by two college students who are riding without tickets.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:57:48 +0000sfr3593 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Countrywomanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-countrywoman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative doesn't say how it knows the young woman carrying an infant is a "countrywoman" (170), but it does sympathize with the fact that she is forced to stand while the college students on the train occupy the seats.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:01:14 +0000sfr3594 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Infanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-infant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "infant" is the child of the "countrywoman" who cannot find a seat on the train that takes Horace to Oxford (170).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:04:40 +0000sfr3595 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Taxi Driverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-taxi-driver-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative provides the "old" Kinston man who drives Horace home from the train with a fairly intricate story. "In the old days" he was at the head of local society, "a planter, a landholder, son of one of the first settlers." But when the town "boomed" into sudden prosperity, he lost his property "through greed and gullibility" and for the last several decades has made a living as a taxi driver. With his "gray moustache with waxed ends" and his "suit of grey striped with red," however, he still gives off an air of gentility (297-98).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:19:54 +0000sfr3596 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jewish Garment Workershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jewish-garment-workers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For no apparent reason, the narrative notes that the "suit of gray" worn by the "old man" in Kinston who drives the taxi was "made by Jews in the New York tenement district" (298). Many different ethnicities worked in the city's garment industry and belonged to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (founded in 1900), but the stereotype of the Jewish garment worker was widespread in the 1920s.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:16 +0000sfr3597 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Traveling Salesmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-traveling-salesmen-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "old man" who drives the taxi in Kinston is fond of telling the "drummers" (the contemporary name for traveling salesmen) that "he used to lead Kinston society; now he drove it" (297). He also frequently drives the salesmen, obviously, from the train station to the town's hotels.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:33:14 +0000sfr3598 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Little Belle is at a "house party" somewhere when Horace calls her at the end of the novel (299), with someone whom readers only hear, as a "masculine voice" who interrupts Belle to try to tell Horace something before Belle "hushes" him (300).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:40:32 +0000sfr3599 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Studentshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-students
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents two sets of college students. (1) The classmates Temple thinks of twice during her ordeal at the Frenchman's place: first, while lying in the dark at the Old Frenchman's place, when she thinks of "the slow couples strolling toward the sound of the supper bell" (51); and then, while hiding from Pap, whom she hears defecating in the barn, when she imagines them "leaving the dormitories in their new spring clothes" toward the bells of the churches (87). (2) The "throng of them" as seen by Horace when he gets off the train at the Oxford station (170).</p></div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:15:34 +0000sfr3610 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Postoffice Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-postoffice-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Both Horace and, before him, a private detective apply for information about Temple's whereabouts to the man who works as a clerk in the university branch of the post office. "Young," with a "dull face," "horn[-rimmed] glasses" and "meticulous" hair, he tells Horace that she has quit school. (Less than a decade before he wrote <em>Sanctuary</em> Faulkner himself had been the clerk in this post office.)</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:21:24 +0000sfr3611 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduClarence Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/clarence-snopes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Clarence Snopes is identified the "son of a restaurant-owner" in Yoknapatawpha (175). In <em>Flags in the Dust</em> his father is identified as I.O. Snopes, and the restaurant is owned by Flem Snopes, the patriarch of (to quote <em>Sanctuary</em> again) the "family which had been moving into Jefferson for the past twenty years" (175).</p></div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:47:59 +0000sfr3612 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Detectivehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-detective
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we know about this character is that, when Horace asks the post office clerk at the University if he knows where Temple has gone, the clerk in reply asks him if he is "another detective" - suggesting that a detective of some kind has already been looking for Judge Temple's missing daughter (171). We don't even know if he is a private detective, or a policeman.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:54:28 +0000sfr3613 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Train Passengers(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-train-passengers3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Horace sees Clarence Snopes talking with "four men" in the smoker car on the train from Oxford to Holly Springs (175).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:05:06 +0000sfr3614 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeorgehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/george
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>George seems to be the regular porter on the train between Oxford and Holly Springs. Clarence Snopes invariably tips him with a cigar instead of cash, but when Horace asks George what he is going to do with it, he replies "I wouldn't give it to nobody I know" (177).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:11:52 +0000sfr3615 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Aunt of Temple'shttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-aunt-temples
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Temple's aunt "up north" may really exist, though it is clear that when the local newspaper in Jackson publishes the news that Temple's father has sent his daughter to spend time with this woman, that is a fiction intended to cover Temple's disappearance from college (176).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:16:05 +0000sfr3616 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFonzohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/fonzo
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Fonzo is one of the "two youths in new straw hats" that Horace sees board the train for Memphis in Holly Springs (177). The other is Virgil Snopes. Chapter 21 tells the story of their misadventures as students at barber school in the city - or as babes in the wood. They move into Miss Reba's, thinking it is a boarding house, carefully hiding their trips to a different Memphis brothel from her. Fonzo is the more concupiscent of the pair.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:07:41 +0000sfr3617 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVirgil Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/virgil-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As a Snopes Virgil provides an occasion for laughter rather than alarm. He is one of the "two youths in new straw hats" that Horace sees board the train from Holly Springs to Memphis. Chapter 21 is the story of their misadventures as students in the city's barber college - and as babes in the wood. Virgil has claimed to know something about Memphis from previous trips, but that pretense quickly disappears amid the bustling crowds and opulent hotels of the city.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:20:32 +0000sfr3618 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Prostituteshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-prostitutes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The novel spends a lot of time in Miss Reba's, but the women who work their as prostitutes remain largely offstage. At various times Temple, Fonzo and Virgil hear their laughter or the rustle of their clothes. In Chapter 21 they appear as "a plump blonde woman" (192), a woman "in a kimono" leaving "a trail of scent" (194), a "blonde woman in a red dress" (198).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:28:13 +0000sfr3619 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-man-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is one of the first people to arrive at the airfield after the plane appears over town. The fact that he arrives in a wagon and not a car suggests that he might be a farmer; the fact that he descends from the wagon and approaches the airplane suggests his curiosity.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:21:55 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3648 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTwo White Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/two-white-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These two men arrive at the airfield with Mr. Black, in his car.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:28:53 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3649 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHolidayershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/holidayers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Probably with enough disposable income to pay for a holiday ride in an airplane, this group of people died "about two years ago" when two of the engines in a "big plane" flown by Jock quit. He is able to land without the engines, but one of the "holidayers" lit a match and caught the gas line on fire, burning himself and his fellow passengers to death.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:39:09 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu3717 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDu Prehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/du-pre-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we know about Virginia Du Pre's husband is that he was killed by "the Yankees" during the Civil War (732).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:20:52 +0000sfr3722 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEustace Grahamhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eustace-graham-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Eustace Graham, the District Attorney who prosecutes Lee Goodwin, grew up in Jefferson. According to Horace, he is a "damn little squirt" (185) who probably pressured the hotel into turning Ruby out. According to the narrator, he has "a club foot, which had probably elected him to the office he now held" (261). He earned the town's sympathy by his hard work, which got him into the State University, but at the same time made money, and acquired a reputation for unscrupulousness, playing poker "behind drawn shades" in the office of the livery stable (262).</p></div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:20:18 +0000sfr3738 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Harrishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-harris-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we know about Mr. Harris, the owner of the livery stable, is that he is suspicious enough of Eustace Graham to fold a hand during a poker game, because Graham had dealt the cards.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:39:14 +0000sfr3740 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People in Memphishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-memphis
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various people whom Virgil and Fonzo see in the train station and on the streets of Memphis when they arrive there in Chapter 21. None are given any individuality, but they are identified as "a stream of people" who "jostle" the newcomers in the depot, where they are also beset by cabmen and a redcap, and, in the Hotel Gayoso and another, unnamed hotel, a porter, bellboys, and "people sitting among the potted plants" in hotel lobbies (188-90).</p></div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:49:42 +0000sfr3741 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Blonde Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-blonde-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Standing outside Miss Reba's brothel, Virgil and Fonzo see this "plump blonde woman" and "a man" get out of a taxi (192). The couple's behavior outside the door causes Fonzo to suck in his breath, and Virgil to assume that they must be married, but while the narrator never says so explicitly, it's clear enough that she is a prostitute and he is one of her customers. She disappears into the house.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:01:49 +0000sfr3742 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Standing outside Miss Reba's brothel, Virgil and Fonzo see this "plump blonde woman" and "a man" get out of a taxi (192). The couple's behavior outside the door causes Fonzo to suck in his breath, and Virgil to assume that they must be married, but while the narrator never says so explicitly, it's clear enough that she is a prostitute and he is one of her customers. He leaves in the taxi after dropping her off at the house.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:04:50 +0000sfr3743 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Barber-Studenthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-barber-student
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This fellow student at the barber school with Fonzo and Virgil is presumably the person who, twelve days after they have started sleeping at Miss Reba's, tells Fonzo about the existence in Memphis of a house of prostitution. At any rate, he accompanies them to "that house" after Fonzo convinces Virgil to go (196).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:15:12 +0000sfr3744 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Pair of Negro Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-pair-negro-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "two shabby negro men" whom Clarence, Virgil and Fonzo see arguing with a white man in the hallway of the Negro brothel may work there (as bouncers, perhaps), or may be customers themselves (198).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:21:18 +0000sfr3745 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Drunk Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drunk-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the hallway of the Negro brothel that Clarence takes them to, Virgil and Fonzo see "a drunk white man in greasy overalls" arguing with two Negro men (198). His overalls identify him as lower class, and tell us something about the socio-economic standing of the brothel's clientele, but no other details, about the man or the argument, are given.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:25:30 +0000sfr3746 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Prostituteshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-prostitutes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The prostitutes who work at the less expensive brothel to which Clarence takes Virgil and Fonzo are called "niggers" by Virgil and described by the narrative as "coffee-colored" (199). Their dresses are "bright," their hair is "ornate" and their smiles are "golden" (199).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:31:23 +0000sfr3747 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBelle's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/belles-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Almost as soon as Horace leaves his wife and step-daughter to return to Jefferson, Belle herself apparently goes to "her father's in Kentucky" (260). Again apparently, that is where she stays for almost the duration of the novel. No other details about her father are provided.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:37:58 +0000sfr3748 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Telephone Operator(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-telephone-operator1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The telephone operator appears in the novel only as "a detached Delsarte-ish voice" that informs Horace his call to Miss Reba, trying to locate Temple, has ended (268). Francois Delsarte was a Frenchman whose instructions for proper pronunciation became famous at the end of the 19th century.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:59:37 +0000sfr3751 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Hotel Proprietorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-hotel-proprietor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The proprietor is described as "a tight, iron-gray man" with "a neat paunch" (180). He is very concerned about propriety: when a committee from the Baptist church complains about Ruby's presence in the hotel, he turns her out.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:07:50 +0000sfr3752 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Walkerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-walker
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While the narrative describes the jailer's wife as "a lank, slattern woman," her insistence on giving Ruby a bed after the Baptists got her thrown out of the hotel, despite her husband's reluctance to do so - "I kin always find a bed fer a woman and child," she says; "I don't keer whut Ed says" - is welcomed by Horace (181).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:20:38 +0000sfr3754 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEd Walkerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ed-walker
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The county jailer was apparently reluctant to allow Ruby and her child to spend a night in the jail, but did not prevent his wife from doing so.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:26:29 +0000sfr3755 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Half-Crazed Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-half-crazed-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "old half-crazed white woman" is one of Jefferson's most eccentric inhabitants (200). The physical description of her is equally striking: her "lank grayish hair" hangs beside "the glittering collapse of her face" (201). She is reported to make her living by "manufactur[ing] spells for negroes" (200), though her house was also once raided by "officers searching for whiskey" (201). Horace arranges for Ruby to stay in the "lean-to shed room" attached to her house.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:41:57 +0000sfr3756 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negroes-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to the narrative, "at almost any hour of the twenty-four" Negroes "might be seen" entering the house of the "half-crazed white woman" who reputedly sells them "spells" - i.e. magic potions (200-01). Many of them arrive at her house in "a wagon or a buggy," suggesting that they live in the country, not the town.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:47:51 +0000sfr3757 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Officershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-officers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "officers" who search the "ramshackle house" of the "old half-crazed white woman" who manufactures "spells for negroes" may be local policemen, or, since they are looking for whiskey, federal revenuers (201). In any case, there is nothing alcoholic in the "collection of dirty bottles containing liquid" which they find.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:51:42 +0000sfr3758 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bellboyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bellboys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Listening to State Senator Clarence Snopes talk about the life he lives in the capital of Jackson, Horace conjures up images of "bellboys" with "bulging jackets" (presumably contained alcoholic beverages) making deliveries to "hotel rooms" (175).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:57:26 +0000sfr3759 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jackson Prostituteshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jackson-prostitutes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Listening to State Senator Clarence Snopes talk about the life he leads in the state capital of Jackson, Horace conjures up images of "discreet flicks of skirts in swift closet doors" in various hotel rooms (175). That's all the narrative gives us, but it seems safe to assume that inside the skirts are women, and that the women themselves are prostitutes. The narrative makes very clear elsewhere how well Clarence knows his way around the brothels of Memphis.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:02:09 +0000sfr3760 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMinnie's Husbandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/minnies-husband
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the past Minnie was married to a "cook in a restaurant," but he "didn't approve of Minnie's business" as a maid in a brothel, so he took everything he could from her and "went off with a waitress in the restaurant" (209-10). Minnie sounds glad to be rid of him.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:10:53 +0000sfr3761 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Waitresshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-waitress
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All the narrative says about this waitress is that Minnie's husband "went off" with her sometime before the novel begins (210).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:13:43 +0000sfr3762 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFour Illegitimate Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/four-illegitimate-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Horace asks Reba "Have you any children?" she replies "Yes. . . . I'm supporting four, in a Arkansaw home now," though she adds immediately "Not mine, though" (211). If not, they are presumably the children of various women who have worked for her as prostitutes.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:24:40 +0000sfr3763 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Girlhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-girl
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Temple mentions this young woman while talking to Horace: "a girl" who "went abroad one summer" and after she came back told Temple about chastity belts (217). There's no way to determine if she was a fellow college student or a friend from Jackson.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:34:36 +0000sfr3764 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Amorous Couplehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-amorous-couple
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "two figures" Horace sees locked in an embrace in "an alley-mouth" are probably outside Miss Reba's house, though it is possible they exist only in his mind, which is reeling from his encounter with Temple inside the brothel and the story she tells him about being raped. The behavior of the couple certainly matches Horace's fascinated revulsion with sexuality: the man whispers "unprintable epithet after epithet" caressingly; the woman swoons with "voluptuous ecstasy" (221).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:49:34 +0000sfr3765 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Cab Driverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-cab-driver
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This cab driver tries to find out if Temple is looking for a ride.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:55:59 +0000sfr3766 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man in Caphttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man-cap
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Temple sees "a man in a cap" twice when she leaves Miss Reba's to make a phone call. The first time he is "standing in a door[way]" (228), and it seems fairly certain (without being made explicit) that he is a confederate of Popeye who is there to keep an eye on her.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:59:36 +0000sfr3767 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRedhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/red
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Popeye, who is himself impotent, brings Red into Temple's life as a surrogate sexual partner for her - turning Reba's "respectable" brothel, as she indignantly puts it, "into a peep-show" (255). When Temple tries to run away with Red, however, Popeye kills him. Red "looked like a college boy" (235), but is part of the Memphis underworld. Temple offers to go with him "Anywhere" (238), and warns him that Popeye plans to kill him, but her interest in him seems entirely sexual; her physical longing for him is graphically portrayed.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:18:26 +0000sfr3768 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Myrtlehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-myrtle
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Miss Myrtle is one of the two women who comes back to the brothel with Miss Reba after the funeral for Red. (The context suggests they might be madams at other Memphis brothels, but that is not made explicit in the text.) Myrtle is the "short plump woman in a plumed hat" who is accompanied by Uncle Bud, a "boy of five or six" (250). She may be his mother, though her attempt to discipline him for drinking from their beers is half-hearted at best.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:28:40 +0000sfr3769 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Lorrainehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-lorraine
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Miss Lorraine is one of the two women who come back to the brothel with Miss Reba after Red's funeral. (The context suggests they might be madams at other Memphis brothels, but that is not made explicit in the text.) Lorraine is the "thin woman in sober, severe clothes and gold nose-glasses" (250). The narrator refers to her "flat spinster's breast" (256) and several times compares her appearance to that of "a school-teacher" (251, 258).</p></div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:37:49 +0000sfr3770 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUncle Budhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/uncle-bud
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Despite his name, "Uncle Bud" is a "small bullet-headed boy of five or six" (250), "with freckles like splotches of huge summer rain on a sidewalk" (251). He is related somehow to Miss Myrtle, though he is only staying with her temporarily, and will soon "go back home" (252) to "a Arkansaw farm" (251) - perhaps the same Arkansas orphanage where the four children whom Reba is supporting live. He is adept at "snitching beer" (253); after he breaks into the icebox and drinks a whole bottle, he brings Chapter 25 to a close by throwing up.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:51:31 +0000sfr3771 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Law Professorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-law-professors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Because they felt sorry about his handicap, the unnamed law professors who taught Eustace Graham at the "State University," we're told, "groomed him like a race-horse" (262).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:19:28 +0000sfr3776 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Parisian Beggarshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-parisian-beggars
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During Horace's first conversation with Lee Goodwin in his jail cell, the child that Ruby is holding is compared by the narrator to "the children which beggars on Paris streets carry" (116). Horace has been to France, and is carrying a French novel when the novel begins. The novel's final scene is set in Paris. Still, in the immediate context of the narrow cell that confines Goodwin, the narrative's sudden evocation of life half a world away from Yoknapatawpha comes as a surprise.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:45:33 +0000sfr3796 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPopeye's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/popeyes-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Never named, the woman who gave birth to Popeye is "the daughter of a boarding house keeper" in Pensacola (302-03). She is already pregnant with him, and carrying the disease (probably syphilis) that will leave her an "invalid" (309), when she marries Popeye's father, a professional strike-breaker whom she has only known for 3 days when they decide to marry. They were married less than 3 weeks when he takes off, leaving her to raise the child who is born with the same disease by herself.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:13:35 +0000sfr3797 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPopeye's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/popeyes-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man who fathered Popeye was a professional strike breaker who married Popeye's mother when she got pregnant and then, less than three weeks later, ran off - leaving her and the child with a disease that was probably syphilis.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:21:35 +0000sfr3798 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPopeye's Grandmotherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/popeyes-grandmother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The mother of Popeye's mother seems normal enough when first introduced, as someone who likes the strike-breaker who is Popeye's father. After being widowed, she has remarried a man who takes good care of her boarding house - until one day he disappears with all the money she had in the bank. Perhaps this event is what triggers her madness, a mixture of pyromania and paranoia.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:33:30 +0000sfr3799 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPopeye's Step-Grandfatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/popeyes-step-grandfather
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The second husband of Popeye's maternal grandmother appears in and disappears from the narrative in half a paragraph. We see "an undersized, snuffy man with a mild, rich moustache" who is very handy maintaining the boarding house his wife owns, until the day he walks out with a check to pay the butcher and instead vanishes with all the money she has saved (304).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:37:57 +0000sfr3800 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Memphis Policemanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-memphis-policeman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This policeman shouts as Popeye as he speeds past, driving Temple through Memphis to the Grotto club.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:44:44 +0000sfr3801 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Woman in Grottohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-woman-grotto
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While Temple is in the "washroom" of the Grotto club she and another woman "examine one another's clothes with brief, covert, cold, embracing glances" (233).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:49:01 +0000sfr3802 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Patrons of Grotto Clubhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-patrons-grotto-club
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various "dancers" and gamblers who are at the Grotto club the night Popeye takes Temple there.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:55:00 +0000sfr3803 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Grotto Club Waitershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-grotto-club-waiters
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Waiters appear in both scenes set in the Grotto club. In Chapter 25, describing the funeral for Red, they are clearly identified as "negro waiters, in black shirts beneath starched jackets." In the previous chapter, however, the narrative describes the two waiters who place drinks in front of Temple and Popeye in more racially ambiguous terms: seen from Temple's perspective they appear as "a brown [hand] in a white sleeve, a soiled white one beneath a dirty cuff" (235). Also in Chapter 24, "a waiter" shows Temple to a private room, where Red joins her (238).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:58:55 +0000sfr3804 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Grotto Club Musicians(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-grotto-club-musicians1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "orchestra" at the Grotto club provides the soundtrack to the scene in which Popeye and Red compete fatally for Temple. The dance music they play "swirls slowly about her in a bright myriad wave" (238). But the narrative never describes either the musicians or the music more particularly; given the history of music in Memphis, they may be black.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:05:46 +0000sfr3805 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Four Men" in Grotto Clubhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-four-men-grotto-club
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Temple arrives at the Grotto, she sees four men "sitting at a table near the door" (234). Two soon leave, but the other two are described with a few details. One is chewing gum with "teeth of an unbelievable whiteness and size" (234). The other has "his coat buttoned across his chest" (235). The two who remain forcibly carry Temple away from the club. All four seem to be cronies of Popeye, working with him to arrange Red's murder.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:12:00 +0000sfr3806 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Grotto Club Musicians(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-grotto-club-musicians2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A second "orchestra," "from a downtown hotel," is hired to provide music at Red's funeral. A dispute arises about what kind of music they should play. "The leader" proposes "the Blue Danube" by "Strauss" (a detail which suggests these musicians are white, 244), another man proposes "jazz." But at the suggestion of the proprietor of the Grotto they first play "Nearer My God, To Thee," and then the "cornetist" plays a solo version of "In That Haven of Rest" (245).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:32:21 +0000sfr3807 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joe-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The proprietor of the Grotto club, a bald man named only "Joe" (247), lacks culture (he thinks "The Blue Danube" is a blues song, for example, 244), but he does his best to keep Red's funeral as dignified as possible. The people in attendance, however, believe he is trying to keep them from having a good time.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:39:09 +0000sfr3808 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGenehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/gene
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As Gene says, "I aint nothing but a bootlegger," but in tribute to Red he makes sure there's plenty of free liquor at the funeral in Chapter 25. He is described as "a far man in a shapeless greenish suit," with dirty hands, "a greasy black tie" and a very sweaty face (243-44).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:43:45 +0000sfr3809 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mourners at Red's Funeralhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mourners-reds-funeral
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Mourners" is a euphemism. Two of the people in attendance at Red's funeral - "middle-aged women" (246) - are described "weeping quietly," but most seem mainly interested in the free alcohol Gene is providing and in getting the flowers off the crap table so that gambling can resume. They include men in both "dark suits" and "the light, bright shades of spring," and women, the "younger ones" wearing "bright colors" and the older ones "in sober gray and black and navy blue, and glittering with diamonds" (243).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:55:41 +0000sfr3810 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Grotto Club Bouncerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-grotto-club-bouncer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A thick, muscle-bound, bullet-headed man" wearing a badly fitting dinner jacket (243), the bouncer at the Grotto club is put to work when he tries to remove a rowdy guest at Red's funeral and is attacked by four men. The funeral ends when they crash into the bier and spill Red's body out of the coffin.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:00:08 +0000sfr3811 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bootlegger's Helpershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bootleggers-helpers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Like Gene, the bootlegger they work for, the two "young men" who bring additional alcohol for the funeral are described as "soiled" (246).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:05:04 +0000sfr3812 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Vaudeville Quartethttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-vaudeville-quartet
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "male quartet" hired for Red's funeral from "a vaudeville house" bring "the older women" to tears "singing mother songs" and Sonny Boy "in close harmony" (247).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:08:05 +0000sfr3813 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Woman in Red Dresshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-woman-red-dress
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Among the people attending Red's funeral, this "woman in a red dress" deserves to be singled out. She plays a role that recurs in Faulkner's fiction: the agent of chaos. Just as the crowd "grows quiet" listening to the orchestra play a hymn, she enters "unsteadily"; her first word is "Whoopee" (245). Later, her demand that Joe "get that damn stiff out of here and open the [crap] game," accompanied by "a burst of filthy language" (248), sets off the violence that brings the funeral literally crashing to an end.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:17:57 +0000sfr3814 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Chauffeurshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-chauffeurs
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Six "liveried chauffeurs" drive the otherwise empty "Packard touring cars" that follow the hearse carrying Red's body to the cemetery.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:22:14 +0000sfr3815 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Residents of Memphishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-residents-memphis
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we see of the people who live in what the narrative calls "the restricted district" of Memphis through which Red's funeral procession passes are their "faces," which "peer from beneath lowered shades" as it goes by (249). While it is not absolutely clear what "restricted district" refers to, the point of this passage seems to be to juxtapose two worlds in Memphis: the underworld and the respectable (but intimidated) citizenry.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:27:41 +0000sfr3816 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Store Clerkshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-store-clerks
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Trying to find out where Narcissa went after seeing her in town, Horace asks all the clerks "within the radius of where she must have turned" if they've seen her (261).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:18:15 +0000sfr3817 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Barberhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-barber
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The town barber listens silently while Clarence complains about the "Memphis jew lawyer" who wouldn't pay full price for the information he was trying to sell, then slyly lets Clarence know how little of his story he accepts at face value (266). His open-mindedness identifies this barber with Henry Hawkshaw, the man who owns the Jefferson barber shop in Faulkner's short story "Dry September," published a month before <em>Sanctuary</em> appeared - but the barber in the novel is not named.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:49:44 +0000sfr3821 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Memphis Lawyerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-memphis-lawyer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We first hear about this man during Clarence Snopes' antisemitic rant about "a Memphis jew lawyer" (266). We see him for the first time on the day Temple testifies in court; he sits "picking his teeth" at the prosecution's table. There Horace refers to him as "a Jew lawyer from Memphis" (282). The narrative's description is less overtly hostile, but phrases like "his skull was capped closely by tight-curled black hair" and "he had a long, pale nose" (281) do emphasize his ethnicity. His connection with Memphis suggests he represents Popeye's interests.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:00:50 +0000sfr3823 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed American Soldiers(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-american-soldiers1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These soldiers, presumably cavalrymen since that was what Lee was, are returning to San Francisco from their deployment in the Philippines when Ruby asks them about what has happened to Lee. When she lets one of them pick her up, he paws her drunkenly while telling her about Lee killing another soldier in a fight over "that nigger woman" (277). American forces were first sent to the Philippines in 1898 to fight the Spanish, but soon were fighting against Philippine nationalists. The Philippines were an American territory from 1898 to 1946.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:33:43 +0000sfr3827 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Leavenworth Lawyerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-leavenworth-lawyer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although we hear very little about the lawyer in Leavenworth who is retained to help Lee, since he allows Ruby to live with him for two months, using her body as his retainer, while knowing the whole time that he "couldn't do anything for a federal prisoner" (277), it seems safe to call him unscrupulous.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:43:19 +0000sfr3828 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed American Soldiers(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-american-soldiers2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the First World War, Ruby worked in New York, where the city was, according to her, "full of soldiers with money to spend" (278).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:52:43 +0000sfr3830 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Young Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-young-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the First World War, Ruby worked in New York City, where according to her "even the little ratty girls [were] wearing silk," presumably as presents from all the "soldiers with money to spend" (278).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:55:14 +0000sfr3831 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Deputyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-deputy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This deputy escorts Lee on his trips between the jail and the courthouse.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:58:03 +0000sfr3832 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Spectators in Courtroomhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-spectators-courtroom
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We see the people who watch Lee's trial from Horace's perspective, as he enters the courtroom. From this point of view they are a collection of "heads": "bald heads, gray heads, shaggy heads and heads trimmed to recent feather-edge above sun-baked necks, oiled heads above urban collars and here and there a sunbonnet or a flowered hat" (281). The details suggest that the crowd is mostly male, but drawn from almost all the local social classes.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:03:43 +0000sfr3833 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Judgehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-judge
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We've identified the man who presides over Lee's trial as "upper class" based on the status of the title "Judge" in Faulkner's other fiction. In <em>Sanctuary</em> the judge is never individualized at all. He is not even called "judge" by the narrative, just "the Court" (270, 282, etc.). Similarly, throughout the trial the prosecuting attorney, who has already been carefully characterized by name as Eustace Graham, is not called anything but "the District Attorney" (283, etc.). It is a curious elision on Faulkner's part.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:11:03 +0000sfr3834 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bailiffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bailiff-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The bailiff is Lee's trial is mentioned calling the court into session and swearing Temple before she testifies.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:14:10 +0000sfr3835 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Court Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-court-clerk-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The clerk is mentioned calling Temple's name and when the judge upholds Horace's only objection during her testimony.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:16:51 +0000sfr3836 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jurorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jurors-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Given the political realities of Mississippi circa 1930 it's safe to say that the jurors in Lee's trial are all white and male, but all the narrative ever says about them is that, after Temple's testimony brings the proceeding to an inexplicable end, they take "eight minutes" to convict him of a crime he did not commit (291).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:20:21 +0000sfr3837 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Chemisthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-chemist
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During Lee's trial the District Attorney mentions that "the chemist" has testified, presumably about the blood stain on the corn-cob (283).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:25:36 +0000sfr3838 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Gynecologisthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-gynecologist
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Immediately before questioning Temple, the District Attorney mentions that "the gynecologist" has testified about "the most sacred affairs of that most sacred thing in life: womanhood" (283-84).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:29:42 +0000sfr3839 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTemple's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/temples-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During her testimony, Temple says her mother is dead (285). That is the only time she is mentioned in the novel.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:32:52 +0000sfr3840 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Sheriffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-sheriff-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A fat man, with a broad, dull face," the sheriff arrests Lee in the first half of the novel, and then, just before Lee is lynched, expresses his hope that the crowd outside the jail "wont do anything" (293).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:40:41 +0000sfr3841 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Temporary Deputieshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-temporary-deputies
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There are "two temporary deputies" at the "entrance to the square" just before Lee is lynched, but they are nowhere to be seen when the lynching occurs (293).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:43:35 +0000sfr3842 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Night Marshalhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-night-marshal
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The marshal is identified by his accoutrements: "a broad pale hat, a flash light, a time clock and a pistol" (294). He tries unsuccessfully to disperse the mob that has gathered to lynch Lee Goodwin.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:46:30 +0000sfr3843 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man in Shirt Sleeveshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man-shirt-sleeves
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We are not told what the "man in his shirt sleeves" whom Horace sees "gesticulant" in front of the jail is saying to the crowd that gathers after Lee is convicted (293). While it seems certain that he is inciting them to violence against Lee, the crowd remains "quite orderly" after he finishes "talking himself out" (293).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:58:31 +0000sfr3844 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Lynch Mobhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-lynch-mob
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the hours after Lee is convicted legally for Tommy's murder, and in the minds of the town for Temple's rape, a crowd that first gathers in the square turns into a lynch mob of "antic" figures who burn him to death (296). We see the confused scene through Horace's eyes. He registers running men, "panting shouts," a "circle" that has gathered around a "blazing mass" (295-96), but only one member of the mob is individualized: a man "carrying a five-gallon coal oil can" which explodes in his hands.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:17:33 +0000sfr3845 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boarding House Tenantshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boarding-house-tenants
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator calls the people who board with Popeye's mother "clients" (304). None are described in any detail, but we know they include some "old ones" and one man who finds two fires in his room. The day after firemen discover Popeye's grandmother with a fire in the attic, "all the clients left" (305).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:17:37 +0000sfr3846 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Neighbor(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-neighbor1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the "neighbor" who turns in a fire alarm when Popeye's grandmother sets a fire in the attic (305).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:19:31 +0000sfr3847 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Firemenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-firemen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Firemen" arrive at Popeye's mother's boarding house to discover his grandmother in the attic, "stamping out a fire of excelsior in the center of the floor" (305). The last time they arrive there, the house is engulfed in flames.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:21:36 +0000sfr3848 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Negro Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-negro-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Popeye's mother gets sick after her husband abandons her, it is "an old negro woman" rather than a doctor that she goes to, and the woman "tells her what was wrong" (304). The narrator doesn't tell us, but the problem is probably syphilis.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:24:22 +0000sfr3849 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Doctor(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-doctor2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The doctor whom Popeye's mother consults about her sickly child tells her to "feed him eggs cooked in olive oil" (305). (It is possible that Faulkner is making a strange and subversive reference to the cartoon characters Popeye and Olive Oyl; both these E. C. Segar characters had appeared in newspapers at least two years before <em>Sanctuary</em> was published.)</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:31:18 +0000sfr3850 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Delivery Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-delivery-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This boy falls on his bicycle while making a delivery to Popeye's mother. By breaking the bottle of olive oil she ordered, he sets off a series of unfortunate incidents - but is himself unapologetic about the original mishap, telling the customer "You ought to buy that oil in cans" and "you want to have that gate fixed" (305).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:36:37 +0000sfr3851 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Rich Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-rich-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After Popeye's grandmother leaves him on the seat of a parked limousine, the woman who owns the car becomes a kind of godmother to the child, making sure Popeye gets medical attention and often bringing him "to her home in afternoons and for holidays" (308). The narrative does not explain her motives in trying to help, but does show how they come to grief when her attempt to give him a birthday party is defeated by his violent antisocial behavior. Even after Popeye is sent to "a home for incorrigible children" (309), this woman continues to help Popeye's mother support herself (309).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:44:59 +0000sfr3852 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Neighbor(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-neighbor2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the neighbor of Popeye's mother who reports him for "cutting up a half-grown kitten" (309). It may be the neighbor who reported the fire in the boarding house earlier, but the text gives no indication of that.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:48:50 +0000sfr3853 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Chauffeurhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-chauffeur-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This driver gives Popeye's grandmother "half a dollar" after he interprets her demand for it as a new system for paying for groceries (306).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:01:02 +0000sfr3854 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Shoppershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-shoppers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "customers" in the "self-service" Pensacola grocery store are seen "moving slowly along a railing in single file" (306).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:03:02 +0000sfr3855 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Pensacola Policemanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-pensacola-policeman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The policeman from whom Popeye's grandmother asks for a match thinks her irrational statements (including the ominous "I bring down the house") are a deliberate effort at humor (307). He tells her three times that she "ought to be in vaudeville."</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:07:11 +0000sfr3856 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Murdered Deputyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-murdered-deputy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Chapter 31 begins by telling readers that Popeye is arrested (wrongly) "for the murder of a policeman in a small Alabama town" (302). Later, after he has been (wrongly) convicted for the crime, his jailor tells Popeye that "folks here says that deppity invited killing" for the "two-three mean things folks knows about" (313).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:14:49 +0000sfr3857 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Policemenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-policemen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Popeye is jailed in the unnamed Alabama town for murder, "they" - presumably some combination of local policemen and the jailers - talk about how he'll send for his lawyer (310). It is also "they" who take Popeye to the place of his execution, and "adjust the rope" around his neck, "breaking his hair loose" (315).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:18:41 +0000sfr3858 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Birmingham Policemanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-birmingham-policeman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is "the officer" who brings Popeye from Birmingham, where he is arrested, to the "small Alabama town" where he will be tried and convicted (310).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:20:56 +0000sfr3859 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Prisonerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-prisoner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Somewhere down the corridor" of the jail where Popeye awaits trial for murder "a negro was singing" (310) - not unlike the "negro murderer" who is awaiting his execution in the Jefferson jail where Lee awaits his trial much earlier.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:25:44 +0000sfr3860 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Turnkeyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-turnkey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After Popeye is convicted, this "turnkey" shows considerable solicitude for him, buying cigarettes for him with the money Popeye gives him, but also sharing information about the murdered man and even, on the day of his execution, trying to give Popeye his change.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:30:14 +0000sfr3861 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Judgehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-judge
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This judge makes sure Popeye has a lawyer, denies him bail, and sentences him to be hanged after the jury convicts him.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:33:19 +0000sfr3862 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Bailiffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-bailiff
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This bailiff appears in only one sentence, when the Judge at Popeye's trial consults with him about getting the accused man a lawyer.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:35:17 +0000sfr3863 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Lawyerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-lawyer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Popeye's lawyer at his trial for murder is "a young man just out of law school," with "an ugly, eager, earnest face" (311). He tries to defend his client, who is himself indifferent to the trial, with "a gaunt mixture of uncouth enthusiasm and earnest ill-judgment" (311-12).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:39:31 +0000sfr3864 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Lawyerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-lawyer-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Popeye's lawyer at his trial for murder is "a young man just out of law school," with "an ugly, eager, earnest face" (311).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:40:00 +0000sfr3865 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Policemanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-policeman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the three people who testify against Popeye at his trial for a murder he did not commit is "a fellow policeman" of the murdered officer (311). We learn nothing about his testimony, or whether he is sincerely mistaken.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:44:01 +0000sfr3866 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Cigar-Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-cigar-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the three people who testify against Popeye at his trial for a murder he did not commit is "a cigar-clerk" (311). We learn nothing about his testimony, or whether he is sincerely mistaken.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:45:38 +0000sfr3867 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Telephone Operator(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-telephone-operator2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the three people who testify against Popeye at his trial for a murder he did not commit is "a telephone girl" (311). We learn nothing about her testimony, or whether she is sincerely mistaken.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:48:08 +0000sfr3868 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama District Attorneyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-district-attorney
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The District Attorney who tries Popeye believes the conviction was "too easy," and assumes Popeye will mount an appeal (312).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:52:52 +0000sfr3869 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Jurorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-jurors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The faceless jury that hears the case against Popeye deliberates for "eight minutes" (312) - the same amount of time it took the jury in Jefferson to decide Lee was guilty too, similarly for a crime he did not commit.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:55:01 +0000sfr3870 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Ministerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-minister
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the hours before Popeye's execution, this minister prays for him several times, and repeatedly tries without success to get Popeye to pray for himself.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:58:10 +0000sfr3871 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Alabama Sheriffhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-alabama-sheriff
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It is this sheriff who, with a sarcastic comment, "springs the trap" when Popeye is executed by hanging (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:00:27 +0000sfr3872 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Parisian Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-parisian-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The novel's final scene "in the Luxembourg Gardens" in Paris includes a brief reference to "men playing croquet . . . in coats and capes" (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:11:30 +0000sfr3873 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Parisian Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-parisian-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The novel's final scene "in the Luxembourg Gardens" in Paris includes a brief reference to "women [who] sit knitting in shawls" (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:13:01 +0000sfr3874 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Parisian Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-parisian-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The novel's final scene "in the Luxembourg Gardens" in Paris includes a brief reference to children "shouting" and "sailing toy boats" (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:14:58 +0000sfr3875 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Man in Parishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-man-paris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The novel's final scene "in the Luxembourg Gardens" in Paris includes a brief reference to "an old man in a shabby brown overcoat" sailing a toy boat beside the children (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:16:43 +0000sfr3876 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Woman in Parishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-woman-paris
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Temple and her father sit down "in the Luxembourg Gardens" in Paris, this is the "old woman" who comes to them "with decrepit promptitude" to collect the money - four sous - for the seats (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:37:11 +0000sfr3877 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Parisian Bandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-parisian-band
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The band that Temple and her father listen to in the Luxembourg Gardens is dressed "in the horizon blue of the army," and plays Massenet, Scriabin and Berlioz (316).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:39:30 +0000sfr3878 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Committee of Baptistshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-committee-baptists
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We don't see the "committee" of Jefferson Baptists who protest against allowing a woman like Ruby to stay in the town's hotel. The proprietor of the hotel refers to "these church ladies," but it's not clear whether they were the committee - or the group that sent the committee. In either case, the proprietor tells Horace that "once [them ladies] get set on a thing," a man "might just as well give up and do like they say" (180).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:34:55 +0000sfr3879 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoe Christmashttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joe-christmas
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joe Christmas' story is the most developed of the novel's various narrative lines, though at its center is the unresolvable question of his racial identity. The novel refers to his skin more than once as "parchmentcolored" (120), but race in the world of the novel is defined by the (hypothetical) color of one's "blood," as black or white. Joe is not definitively one or the other. He is the illegitimate son of Milly Hines and a circus worker of uncertain lineage, left at Christmas time anonymously at an orphanage in Memphis by his grandfather, Doc Hines.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:51:38 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3890 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMooneyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mooney
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is the foreman of the crew that works at Jefferson's planing mill. After Christmas and Brown (aka Burch) are hired, Mooney puts them to work scooping sawdust.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:06:55 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3898 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSimmshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/simms
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He may be the owner of Jefferson's planing mill; he is definitely the man in charge of it. He hires Christmas and Brown (aka Burch) at the planing mill.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:13:53 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3900 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoanna Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joanna-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joanna Burden is a middle-aged spinster who has lived in the “old colonial plantation house” (36) outside Jefferson since she was born, yet “she is still a stranger, a foreigner whose people moved in from the North during Reconstruction” (46). Nurturing and helpful to local Negroes, and a contributor to and supporter of many Negro schools and colleges across the South, she is regarded by the townspeople as a “Yankee, a lover of Negroes.” She is forty-something when she begins her complex and ultimately fatal relationship with Joe Christmas.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:22:52 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3901 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Townspeoplehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jefferson-townspeople
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The (white) people of Jefferson as a group play a number of roles in <em>Light in August</em>, from watching the stories of Joe and Joanna and Hightower unfold to helping to tell them.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:37:21 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3903 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoanna's Burden's Negro Neighborshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joannas-burdens-negro-neighbors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the white people of Jefferson shun Joanna Burden, the people of the local black community have close ties with her, as indicated by the footpaths which "radiate from her house like wheelspokes" (257). She "visits them when they are sick," Byron tells Lena, "like they was white" (53). And living at the Burden place Joe notes "the negro women who came to the house from both directions up and down the road," "usually singly though sometimes in twos and threes," and wearing the "aprons and headrags" that are the costume of their caste (257).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:41:38 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3904 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduReverend Gail Hightowerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/reverend-gail-hightower
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> Reverend Hightower (with Lena Grove and Joe Christmas) is at one of the three principal plot centers of the novel. Hightower, a Presbyterian minister, neglects and loses his wife, his church, and his profession because of his continuing obsession over his grandfather, who died in ambiguous circumstances in the Civil War. For years a pariah within the Jefferson community, Reverend Hightower is befriended by Byron Bunch, who respects him and seeks his help and guidance. The narrative describes him as a "fifty-year-old outcast" (49), "tall, with thin . . .</p></div></div></div>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:53:03 +0000chlester0@gmail.com3905 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSydney Herbert Headhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sydney-herbert-head
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Herbert is from South Bend, Indiana. He meets Caddy Compson when Mrs. Compson takes her to the fashionable resort of French Lick specifically to find a husband for her. In April 1910 he and Caddy are married. Mrs. Compson calls Herbert "My Harvard boy" (93). Herbert flirts with her, promises Jason a job in the family bank, and tries to bribe Quentin to keep him from telling Caddy about his expulsion from Harvard for cheating. Quentin describes him with the adjectives "hearty" and "celluloid," and notes a "face full of teeth white but not smiling" (93).</p></div></div></div>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:36:03 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu3906 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduShreve MacKenziehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/shreve-mackenzie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Shreve MacKenzie is Quentin Compson's Harvard University roommate. He is Canadian, and Quentin thinks other students speculate that the two have a homosexual relationship. There is no clear evidence of that in the text, but he is very concerned about Quentin's well-being, for example offering to return to the campus with Quentin after the fight with Gerald Bland. He does not, however, suspect that Quentin is planning to commit suicide. As Quentin's roommate he is a major character in the later novel <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> (1936).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:29:24 +0000thagood@fau.edu3907 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSpoadehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/spoade
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Spoade is a senior at Harvard University from South Carolina. He jokingly calls Shreve Quentin's "husband" (78). According to Quentin, Spoade has "five names, including that of a present English ducal house" (91-92), but never thinks of him except as "Spoade." He lives up to the image of a southern aristocrat in a number of ways besides his name, including the fact that he goes to chapel every day in dishabille. Quentin can tell it's nearly noon when he sees that Spoade has put his shirt on (95).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:44:59 +0000thagood@fau.edu3911 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHardware Store Clerkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hardware-store-clerk
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This clerk sells Quentin two six-pound flat-irons.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000thagood@fau.edu3915 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jewelerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jeweler-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The jeweler to whom Quentin shows his broken watch appears only briefly, but is described in a few vivid details. He is "going bald," his hair is "parted in the center," and "the part runs up into the bald spot, like a drained marsh in December" (83, 85). The jeweler's loupe he wears while working "left a red circle around his eye" (84). He seems familiar with the customs of Harvard students; Quentin's behavior makes him think he has been drinking, perhaps to celebrate the crew meet in New London.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:57:36 +0000thagood@fau.edu3916 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJason Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jason-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jason IV was the third child born to Jason and Caroline Compson. He is the last Compson male in Jefferson capable of having children, and he is some kind of relationship with a woman in Memphis named Lorraine, but he remains childless. He sees himself as an innocent victim of other people, and casts himself in the role of the guardian of his family's honor and his mother's good name from various antagonistic forces, especially his sister and niece. The tone of his narrative is bitter, restless, angry and even funny, though there is a good deal of sadism in his sense of humor.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:03:33 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu3917 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Cigar Sellerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-cigar-seller
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Referred to simply as "the girl" (83), this employee at Parker's Restaurant recommends the fifty-cent cigar to Quentin as the best - he buys one, lights it, and then quickly gives it away.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:04:47 +0000thagood@fau.edu3918 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLouis Hatcherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/louis-hatcher
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Louis Hatcher is an elderly black man who goes possum hunting with Quentin and Versh on a windless October night. Thinking of him, Quentin notes that he "never even used his [hunting] horn carrying it" (114). He does use the lantern he carries, but the last time he cleaned it, he tells Quentin, was during the 1889 flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; he and his wife Martha were afraid the flood waters would reach Yoknapatawpha. It is possible but unlikely that he is the "Louis" who teaches Caddy how to drive a car (93).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:20:43 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu3919 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTwo Shoeshine Boyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/two-shoeshine-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After leaving Parker's, Quentin notes that "two bootblacks caught me, one on either side, shrill and raucous, like blackbirds. I gave the cigar to one of them, and the other one a nickel" (83). Though the text does not make their race explicit, the "blackbird" image suggests that these two individuals are African American.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:58:57 +0000thagood@fau.edu3937 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDeaconhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/deacon
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Deacon is a fixture among the students at Harvard in 1910, especially the ones who come from the south. Black and, according to Quentin, a "natural psychologist" (97), he meets these southerners when they first arrive in Cambridge, "in a sort of Uncle Tom's cabin outfit, patches and all" (97) and proceeds to manipulate their prejudices to his own benefit. He tells Quentin that "you and me's the same folks, come long and short," and that Southerners are "fine folks. But you can't live with them" (99). He seems very much at home in the urban world of Boston.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:25:49 +0000thagood@fau.edu3940 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro on Streetcarhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-streetcar
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin encounters this man on the streetcar in Cambridge. He "wears a derby hat and shined shoes and is holding a dead cigar stub" (86). Because it is the only empty seat in the car, Quentin sits beside him and, perhaps because the man is well-dressed, thinks over what his own experience reveals about the meaning of racial difference.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:45:21 +0000thagood@fau.edu3941 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduRoskus Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/roskus-gibson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Roskus is husband to Dilsey and father to Versh, T.P., and Frony. He drives for the Compsons while also caring for the farm animals until his arms get too weak from rheumatism. He helps care for the Compson children, as well as the adult Benjy, often speculating around Benjy's disability that there "aint no luck on this place" (29). The date of his death is uncertain, but it is likely in the 1920s.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:52 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu3944 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaddy Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/caddy-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Candace Compson was the second child and only daughter of Jason Compson III and Caroline Compson. Faulkner often referred to her character as his "heart's darling." Attractive, caring, active, in some respects braver and even more conventionally masculine than any of her brothers, she is nonetheless trapped inside a complex set of circumstances: her dysfunctional and very needy family, Southern codes of female respectability, and her own biology.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:38:08 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu3945 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Pattersonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-patterson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Pattersons live next door to the Compsons. Maury Bascomb had an affair with Mrs. Patterson when the Compson children were young. At least once Caddy takes her a letter from "Uncle Maury," and sometime later Benjy tries to deliver another. On that occasion we hear her call Benjy "you idiot" as she tries to grab the letter before her husband can reach him (13).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:48:20 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu3946 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Pattersonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-patterson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Pattersons live next door to the Compsons. Mr. Patterson beats up Maury Bascomb when he learns that his wife is having an affair with him.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:55:21 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu3948 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMartha Hatcherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/martha-hatcher
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Martha is the wife of Louis Hatcher. She is afraid the Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania could reach Mississippi.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:40:01 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu3955 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-children
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While their mothers are washing clothes in the branch, these "chillen," as Luster calls them, are playing in it (14).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:36:12 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu3964 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Caddie"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-caddie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The caddie who is called by the golfers while Luster looks for the quarter never explicitly appears. In a sense he exists in Benjy's secion in name only, whenever the golfers on the course beside the Compson yard call "caddie" (3). The fact that whenever this name is called Benjy instead hears "Caddy" makes this and the book's other "caddies" major characters in his mind.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:58:00 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu3969 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Immigrant Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-immigrant-woman-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed Italian immigrant does not speak English but when Quentin knocks at her door seems to indicate to him that the girl who has been accompanying him since he left the bakery lives further down the road.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:16:39 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu3971 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduKennyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/kenny
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the "three boys with fishing poles" Quentin first encounters on the bridge where he hides the flat irons (117) is named Kenny (122). This may be the one that the narrative consistently refers to as "the first boy" (122). He wears a "broken hat" (123) and seems to hold himself a bit apart from the other two boys. Quentin tries talking with him after they leave him, but "he paid me no attention" (123). He seems to have rejoined his friends by the time Quentin sees them again, swimming in the river.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:22:56 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu3973 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJuliohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/julio
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Julio is the older brother of the unnamed Italian girl whom Quentin tries to escort safely home from the bakery. Julio attacks Quentin, thinking that Quentin has tried to kidnap his sister, or as Julio himself puts it: "I killa heem . . . [he] steala my seester" (139). At the Squire's office Julio wants to press kidnapping charges, but instead accepts money from Quentin as compensation for the time he lost at work while chasing after him.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:39:54 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu3974 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Holmeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-holmes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A minor character who is one of two young women on a pleasure outing with Mrs. Bland, Gerald, Spoade and Shreve when Quentin is arrested for kidnapping the unnamed Italian girl. Quentin notes that she and Miss Daingerfield, the other young woman, have "little white noses" (145) and look at him "through veils, with a kind of delicate horror" (141).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:48:31 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu3975 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Daingerfieldhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-daingerfield
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A minor character who is one of two young women on a pleasure outing with Mrs. Bland, Gerald, Spoade and Shreve when Quentin is arrested for kidnapping the unnamed Italian girl. Quentin notes that she and Miss Holmes, the other young woman, have "little white noses" (145) and look at him "through veils, with a kind of delicate horror" (141).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:51:28 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu3976 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduThe Squirehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/squire
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "Squire" who hears the complaint against Quentin involving Julio's sister is a local justice or magistrate. His courtroom is "a bare room smelling of stale tobacco" and "a scarred littered table," the book in which he enters Quentin's name is a "huge dusty" one, and he himself has "a fierce roach of iron gray hair" and wears "steel spectacles" (142). He has the power to fine Quentin, so presumably also could have had him jailed.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:55:16 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu3977 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In keeping with the pattern of inversion that is associated with Deacon, the boy who carries suitcases as part of Deacon's ritual way of greeting new Harvard students from the South is white. When Quentin remembers being met this way, he describes "a moving mountain of luggage" that was being carried by "a white boy of about fifteen" (97).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:17:19 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu3991 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro in Virginiahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-virginia
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin sees this man in Virginia, from the window of the train carrying him back to Yoknapatawpha from Harvard for the holidays. He is sitting patiently on a mule without a saddle, "waiting for the train to move" (86). When Quentin calls out "Christmas gift!" to him, he replies, "Sho comin, boss. You done caught me, aint you" (87). To Quentin, he seems "like a sign put there saying You are home again" in the South (87).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:50:00 +0000thagood@fau.edu3998 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Laurahttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-laura
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Miss Laura is Quentin's elementary school teacher.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:53:28 +0000thagood@fau.edu3999 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHenryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/henry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Henry is the elementary school classmate who answers the teacher's question about who discovered the Mississippi River when Quentin fails to.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:55:13 +0000thagood@fau.edu4000 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGerald Blandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/gerald-bland
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Gerald Bland of Kentucky is a Harvard University classmate of Quentin's with whom Quentin fights when he thinks of Dalton Ames. In many ways he is Quentin's polar opposite: adored by his mother, an accomplished lady's man, athletic and decisive.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:39:21 +0000thagood@fau.edu4002 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduQuentin Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/quentin-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The eldest son of Jason and Caroline Compson, Quentin is a major character in two of Faulkner's major novels, this novel and <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> (1936). In this novel, he is a freshman at Harvard College. It is through Quentin that the novel articulates its thematic focus on the loss of meaning in the modern world. His consciousness is haunted, for example, by his father's nihilism, by the destructiveness of time, by his own inadequacies and above all by his younger sister Caddy's lost virginity.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:40:37 +0000napolinj@newschool.edu4004 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jefferson-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After the Patterson boy stops selling kites with him, Jason finds a new partner, presumably another child about his own age (and presumably more lackadaisical than the Patterson boy about who ends up with the money they make).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 02:54:12 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4010 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGrandfather Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/grandfather-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>His first name is not given in this novel, but he appears in quite a few other Yoknapatawpha texts, and several of them, including the "Appendix" to <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> that Faulkner published in 1946, identify the full name of the paternal grandfather of the Compson children as "Jason Lycurgus Compson." He is the second Compson with that name; there are two more who appear in the novel: his son Mr. Compson, and Mr. and Mrs. Compson's third child, who is Jason IV.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 03:07:22 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4012 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-sartoris-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Legendary progenitor of the Sartoris family, and one of the central characters in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. In the story Faulkner tells about him elsewhere, he was killed fifteen or more years before the Compson children were born.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 03:21:09 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4013 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men at Boathousehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-boathouse
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These two men carry the rowing "shell" that Gerald Bland uses from the boat house to the water (90).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:17:41 +0000thagood@fau.edu4014 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPatterson Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/patterson-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Pattersons' house is adjacent to the Compsons'. Quentin remembers that when Jason was younger, he and "the Patterson boy . . . made kites on the back porch and sold them for a nickel a piece" (94). Jason parted ways with him, apparently when the boy complained about not getting his share of the profits.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:21:07 +0000thagood@fau.edu4015 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Blandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-bland
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Bland is the mother of Quentin's Harvard classmate Gerald; she has moved from Kentucky to Cambridge to be close to her son. She lays claim to an aristocratic heritage, and in person is both formal and insistent. Shreve calls her "fate in eight yards of apricot silk" (106).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:33:56 +0000thagood@fau.edu4018 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDalton Ameshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dalton-ames
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A new arrival in Jefferson in the summer of 1909, Dalton Ames is the first man Caddy Compson has sex with, and may be the father of Caddy's daughter. Caddy tells Quentin that Ames has "been in the army had killed men" (148) and "crossed all the oceans all around the world" (150). Quentin discovers for himself how good Ames is with a pistol when he tries ordering him to leave town. For more than one reason Quentin feels that Ames is not a proper suitor for Caddy, including the issue of class; his name, Quentin thinks, "just missed gentility" (92).</p></div></div></div>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:39:37 +0000thagood@fau.edu4019 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWilkiehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/wilkie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Wilkie is mentioned by Mrs. Bland, when she tells the young people in her car about Gerald's grandfather back in Kentucky, who insisted on picking "his own mint" for his juleps: "He wouldn't even let old Wilkie touch it" (148). It seems safe to say that Wilkie was a servant in the Bland family.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:29:02 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4028 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNataliehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/natalie
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Natalie is a girl about Quentin and Caddy's age who lives near their house. Caddy calls her "a dirty girl" (134) after catching her and Quentin naively exploring their sexualities together in the barn, but their behavior would probably seem natural enough to anyone but Quentin. Natalie does, however, take the lead in this exploration, and given the contemptuous way Caddy treats her (calling her "Cowface," for example, 136), the novel might be suggesting she is lower class.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:53:23 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4029 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMikehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mike
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mike is presumably the owner of the Boston gym where Gerald Bland has been learning to box. Shreve tells Spoade that Bland has "been going to Mike's every day, over in town" (166).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:08:11 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4031 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Memphis Policemenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-memphis-policemen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Three Memphis police men: that is how many it takes, according to the story Quentin heard, to subdue the naked Negroes who disturb the peace in the throes of a religious trance.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:37:25 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4033 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Streetcar Passengers(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-streetcar-passengers3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin mentions the people on the interurban that carries him back to Cambridge when he self-consciously notes that they are all "looking at my [black] eye" as he gets out of the car (170). Nothing else is known about "them," as Quentin calls them.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:48:47 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4034 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Quentin Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-quentin-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There are two Compsons named "Quentin" who appear in the novel, the second (a female) born not long after the first (a male) commits suicide. Miss Quentin is the illegitimate daughter of Caddy Compson and an unknown father. In the 1946 Appendix to <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> Faulkner describes her as "The last. Candace's daughter.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:22:15 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4035 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAnsehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/anse
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Anse is the Marshal of the town near Cambridge where Quentin goes in the second half of his section. He is described by Quentin as "oldish," and he wears a vest with a badge on it and carries a "knotted, polished stick" (139). Quentin is told to find him because he could help Quentin find the lost Italian girl's home. However, Anse found Quentin first; he arrested Quentin for trying to kidnap the lost Italian girl.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:25:21 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu4043 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jealous Husbandhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jealous-husband
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin recalls a story that Mrs. Bland tells about Gerald, involving "a sawmill husband" - the lower-class husband of a woman with whom Gerald has had sexual relations - who confronts him with a shotgun (107). According to Quentin's remembered version, Gerald is supposed to have bitten the gun in two. It's not clear how much of the exaggeration here is Mrs. Bland's and how much Quentin's.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:38:04 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu4044 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White People Outside Jailhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-people-outside-jail
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After describing the "negro murderer" who sings spirituals from inside the jail while awaiting his execution and the "few negroes" who "gathered along the fence" to sing with him (114), the narrative goes on to note the "white people" who "slowed and stopped" to listen (115).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:23:43 +0000sfr4048 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBenjy Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/benjy-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Benjy is the cognitively disabled youngest child of Jason Compson III and Caroline Bascomb. In the novel he is referred to as a "natural" (160) and a "looney" (17); in interviews Faulkner frequently called him an "idiot"; until recently most readers probably thought of him as "severely retarded." At his birth he was named Maury, after Mrs. Compson's brother, but by the time he is five, after his mental disability has become apparent, his mother changes his name to Benjamin.</p></div></div></div>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:18:30 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4050 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLusterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/luster
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Luster is the son of Frony, and grandson of Dilsey. In <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> nothing is said about his father, but elsewhere Faulkner identifies him as an unnamed pullman porter. He spends every day taking care of Benjy and entertaining him. On the day with which the novel begins he also wants to find the quarter that he lost so he can go to what he calls "the show" (a kind of circus) that is playing in Jefferson that night (3). The next day, Easter Sunday, we seem him trying to figure out how to "play a tune on a saw," like the performer in the show (15).</p></div></div></div>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:37:27 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4051 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Golfershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-golfers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On both Saturday and Sunday (the first and fourth sections of the novel) various groups of golfers are described playing on the course behind the Compson place. Consistent with the severe conceptual limitations of Benjy's mind, his descriptions of them are very confusing: "they went to the table, and he hit and the other hit" (3). When the third person narrator describes the same actions in the fourth section, it becomes easy to see who is there and what they are doing: Benjy and Luster "watched the foursome . . . move to the tee and drive" (315).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:44:03 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4052 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/caroline-bascomb-compson-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Caroline Compson nee Bascomb is the sister of Maury Bascomb (Uncle Maury), the wife of Jason Compson III and the mother of Quentin, Candace, Jason and Maury|Benjamin. A bed-ridden neurotic and a hypochondriac, Caroline seems hopelessly self-concerned and can only comprehend the social and moral decline of the Compson family in as much as it relates to her. She seems obsessed with the standing of the Bascomb family and largely oblivious to the misery of her own.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:19:53 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4072 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMaury Bascombhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/maury-bascomb
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Maury Bascomb is the brother of Caroline Bascomb Compson. For much of the Compson children's early life he lives in their home and regularly partakes of their father's whiskey; by 1928 he has moved away, but continues regularly to ask his sister for money. He also has an affair with the Compsons' next door neighbor, Mrs. Patterson. When the affair is revealed, Mr. Patterson beats Uncle Maury - or as Benjy puts it, "His eye was sick, and his mouth" (43).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:36:09 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4074 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVersh Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/versh-gibson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Versh Gibson is the first-born son of Roskus and Dilsey. In the earliest scenes that Benjy remembers, he works as Benjy's caretaker. Sometime before 1928 he has moved from Yoknapatawpha to Memphis; Dilsey blames her husband for his "bad luck talk" that "got them Memphis notions into Versh" (31).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:43:28 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4075 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDilsey Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/dilsey-gibson-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Dilsey is one of the central characters in <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>. She has worked for the Compson family for many decades, and may once have been their slave, or be descended from people who were enslaved by the family. Her own family inhabits the novel as a kind of foil to the Compsons. Married to Roskus, she is the mother of Versh, Frony, and T.P. and the grandmother of Luster. While technically she is the Compsons' cook, she is also generally responsible for keeping together both their family and her own.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:48:43 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4076 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduT.P. Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/tp-gibson-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>T.P. is the second son of Dilsey and Roskus. As a young man he takes his brother Versh's place as Benjy's caretaker, and helps his father with the Compson's horses and cow. In 1910 he gets memorably drunk on the champagne - "sassprilluh," T. P. calls it (37) - that has been bought for Caddy's wedding. In 1928 he no longer lives on the Compson property, but still drives the carriage for Mrs. Compson's Sunday afternoon trips to the cemetery.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:10:48 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4078 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Compsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-compson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Born around the time the South was defeated in the Civil War, Jason Compson III is the heir of one of Jefferson's founding families, yet his patrimony has declined over the course of his lifetime. In Benjy's section readers can find examples of Mr. Compson's attempts to be a good parent to his ill-assorted children, but on the whole he seems to look for refuge from time and loss in both alcoholism and a virulent form of nihilism. He goes through the motions of being a "gentleman," but refuses to believe that anything has meaning.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:39:09 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4080 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHarvard Studentshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/harvard-students
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In addition to the ones who are named (Shreve, Bland, Spoade), a number of unnamed Harvard students appear at different points in Quentin's section. He thinks about the crew team - "them down at New London" getting ready to race Yale - almost as soon as he wakes up (77). Looking out his dorm room window, he watches the undergraduates "running for chapel": "the same ones fighting the same heaving coat-sleeves, the same books and flapping collars" (78).</p></div></div></div>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:35:15 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu4096 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People of Cambridgehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-cambridge
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These are the people passing along the streets in Cambridge outside Quentin's streetcar window - he sees "the crowns of people's heads passing beneath new straw hats not yet unbleached" (89).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:58:44 +0000thagood@fau.edu4109 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Streetcar Passengers(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-streetcar-passengers2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These people get on the streetcar with Quentin when it stops and the African American man exits. This group is made up of "women with market baskets, and men in work-clothes" (89).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:02:29 +0000thagood@fau.edu4110 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMan with Stained Hathttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/man-stained-hat
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin sees this man get on the train with the women carrying market baskets. The man wears "a stained hat with a pipe stuck in the band" (89).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:04:18 +0000thagood@fau.edu4111 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Streetcar Passengers(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-streetcar-passengers1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Quentin first boards the streetcar in Cambridge, he notes that it full of "mostly prosperous looking people reading newspapers" (86).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:12:00 +0000thagood@fau.edu4112 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Crew of Schoonerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-crew-schooner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Two men operate the schooner Quentin watches going under the drawbridge over the Charles: one is "naked to the waist . . . coiling down a line on the fo'c's'le head" and the other is "in a straw hat without any crown . . . at the wheel" (89).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:33:30 +0000thagood@fau.edu4113 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Harvard Freshmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-harvard-freshmen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Deacon appears in the novel walking "along between a couple of freshmen" (97). They disappear after Quentin asks to speak with him, but not before Deacon tells the pair that he was glad to have chatted with them.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:15:05 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu4133 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Old Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-old-man-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Quentin sees this "old man eating something out of a paper bag" (112) when he gets off the interurban car in the town near Cambridge. When he passes the same spot later he notes that the man is gone.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:41:48 +0000thagood@fau.edu4144 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduOld Hethttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/old-het
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Het's history remains an enigma. No one in the town knows how old she is:"She was about seventy probably, though by her own counting . . . she would have to be around a hundred" (249). Het lives in the poorhouse and her "long rat-colored cloak trimmed with what forty or fifty years ago had been fur" (249) reveals her impoverishment. She makes regular visits to the kitchens in Jefferson to receive food. In "Mule in the Yard" Het is Mannie Hait's confidant who helps the latter to communicate with I.O. Snopes.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:31:07 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4158 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMannie Haithttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mannie-hait
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Since her husband was killed by a train ten years earlier (in the retelling of this story in the novel <em>The Town</em> it is but three years), Mannie Hait has apparently lived on the $8500 she received from the railroad in compensation. She has gotten plenty of exercise, however, chasing I.O. Snopes' rogue mules around her yard several times a year. Miss Mannie shows a distrust in the local bank when she withdraws her settlement despite the pressure of the male bank employees to invest in bonds. Indeed, Miss Mannie does not get intimidated by men (or mules) as I.O.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:29:06 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4159 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Haithttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-hait
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The story doesn't say what Lonzo Hait did before he and his wife moved to town ten years earlier, but it seems that shortly after arriving there he was hired by I.O. Snopes to help run the insurance scam against the railroad which got him killed.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:42:55 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4160 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Townspeoplehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-townspeople-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As in many other stories, Faulkner uses the people of Jefferson, or "the town," to provide a kind of combined chorus and audience for the events in "Mule in the Yard." These unnamed townspeople are referred to several times. Their (assumed) knowledge about events becomes a point of reference for the narrator to reveal information about the past and about the main characters' motivations. They speculate about Snopes' relations with the Haits, and they rush to the scenes of Mr. Hait's death and the house fire.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:01:35 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4161 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduI.O. Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/io-snopes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A member of the clan of Snopeses that plays such a prominent role in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, I.O. Snopes is a "harried" man. Eternally greedy, he seeks every opportunity to enrich himself, even through dubious and illegal schemes. In <em>Flags in the Dust</em>, Flem Snopes brings I.O. to Jefferson to run the restaurant.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:13:26 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4162 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Customers of Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-customers-snopes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Farmers and widows and orphans black and white" (252) bought, in good faith, mules from I.O. Snopes.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:20:49 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4163 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Town Waghttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-town-wag
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrative singles out from "the town" as a group "a town wag" (252) who sends I.O. Snopes a printed train schedule in response to all the mules that Snopes lost in "accidents" with freight trains on the blind curve.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:32:12 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4164 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mule Drovershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mule-drovers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These mule drovers help I.O. Snopes to drive his newly purchased mules from the railroad station to his pasture.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:37:11 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4165 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Claims Adjusterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-claims-adjuster
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On behalf of the railroad company, the claims adjuster pays Mannie Hait the sum of $8500 after her husband gets run over by one of their trains. On this occasion he apparently thwarts Snopes, however, by finally refusing to pay anything for the mules who were killed in the accident.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:54:30 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4167 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bank Tellerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bank-teller
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He hands Mannie Hait her money when she cashes out her settlement.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:32:04 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4169 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bank Presidenthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bank-president
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He tries to convince Mannie Hait to invest her settlement money in bonds.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:33:41 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4170 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bank Cashierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bank-cashier-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He tries to convince Mannie Hait to invest her settlement in bonds.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:35:20 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4171 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negroes-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At the grocery store I.O. Snopes shoulders his way through this "throng of Negroes" (259).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:03:28 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4175 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-woman-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She receives a banana from Old Het outside the grocery store.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:06:04 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4176 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSpilmerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/spilmer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Spilmer may or may not still be alive, but the property above the ravine ditch where Mannie Hait hides and shoots a mule bears his name.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:10:33 +0000dorette.sobolewski@gmail.com4177 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boy with Packardhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boy-packard
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Temple tells Gowan that she knows "a boy at home" who owns a Packard automobile like the one that Popeye drives (49).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:56:08 +0000sfr4178 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEarlhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/earl
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Earl owns the hardware store on the Square in Jefferson where Jason Compson works. He tells Jason that Mrs. Compson is "a lady I've got a lot of sympathy for" (227), and apparently for her sake, he puts up with Jason's inadequacies as his employee.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 02:50:47 +0000thagood@fau.edu4217 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUncle Jobhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/uncle-job
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Uncle Job is an African American man who works at the hardware store where Jason Compson also works. In one of his racist rants, Jason calls him "an old doddering nigger" (251), but while Jason also complains about Job's laziness, during the course of the day April 6, 1928, he is shown assembling new cultivators and delivering merchandise. Earl, the man both Job and Jason work for, says "I can depend on him" (248).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 02:52:54 +0000thagood@fau.edu4218 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Drummer"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-drummer-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This man appears at the hardware store where Jason works, and they discuss cotton. "Drummer" is an outdated term for a traveling salesman; Jason invites him to go to the drugstore to get "a dope," an outdated term for a Coca-Cola (191). Because he thinks Jason believes him to be a Jew, he tells Jason that "my folks have some French blood" (191).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 02:58:01 +0000thagood@fau.edu4219 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTelegraph Operatorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/telegraph-operator
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The telegraph operator in Jefferson not only dispenses telegrams but provides updates on the cotton market. Jason Compson often berates him for not providing him with information quickly enough.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 03:02:32 +0000thagood@fau.edu4220 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDoc Wrighthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/doc-wright
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doc Wright trades on the commodities market and can be found at the telegraph office keeping tabs on the price of cotton. He and Jason discuss trading strategy.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 03:06:01 +0000thagood@fau.edu4221 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHopkinshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hopkins
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hopkins is one of the men in Jefferson who trade on the cotton commodities market in New York by means of the telegraph. He is in the telegraph office when Jason drops in, and with Jason he discusses trading strategy.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 03:07:39 +0000thagood@fau.edu4222 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLorrainehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lorraine
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Lorraine is the woman Jason is seeing in Memphis, Tennessee. In the letter she sends him, she calls Jason "my sweet daddy" (193). Their relationship seems based on the money he gives her and the sex she gives him. Jason thinks of her as "a good honest whore" (233). His ideas about other people, especially women, are hardly reliable, but in this case it does seem likely that Lorraine is one of the many Memphis prostitutes in Faulkner's fiction. She is given to drinking beer.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 03:10:58 +0000thagood@fau.edu4223 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Hardware Store Customerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-hardware-store-customer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jason describes the customer to whom he sells a "twenty-cent hame string" as a "dam redneck" (194-95).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:12:42 +0000thagood@fau.edu4224 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHardware Store Customershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hardware-store-customers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These customers come to Earl's hardware store before going to the show in the evening.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:14:57 +0000thagood@fau.edu4225 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMinkhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mink
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mink works at the livery stable in Jefferson. He is most likely black, but that is not specified. He drives the hack, the rented carriage, that the Compsons rent for Mr. Compson's funeral, and then, in exchange for a couple of cigars, drives it again so that Jason can show Caddy's child to her.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:18:26 +0000thagood@fau.edu4226 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduPrinting Shop Workerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/printing-shop-worker
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This man works in the printing shop. He advises Jason as to where he might find old checks from a defunct bank.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:20:24 +0000thagood@fau.edu4227 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSimmonshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/simmons
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr. Simmons (whom Jason calls "old man Simmons," 216) possesses the key to the old opera house that Jason borrows.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:22:31 +0000thagood@fau.edu4228 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduI. O. Snopeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/i-o-snopes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I. O. Snopes trades in the cotton market. In the later novel <em>The Hamlet</em> Faulkner will develop his character into one of the memorable members of the rapacious Snopes family, but in this novel he is, like Doc and Hopkins, simply another man anxious about the price cotton is selling for in New York.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:28:53 +0000thagood@fau.edu4229 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Traveling Salesmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-traveling-salesmen-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jason rages against the "every dam drummer" that comes to Jefferson, all of whom he imagines to have sexual relations with his niece, Quentin (239). "Drummer" is an archaic term for a salesman who travels from town to town. We know that Miss Quentin is sexually active, though these specific partners are products of Jason's imagination.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:31:07 +0000thagood@fau.edu4230 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduTelegram Delivery Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/telegram-delivery-boy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This telegram delivery boy brings Jason news of the stock market.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:51:35 +0000thagood@fau.edu4232 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro at the Forkshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-forks
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At "the forks" where two roads diverge this man informs Jason which way the Ford carrying Quentin and the man in the red tie went (238).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:53:42 +0000thagood@fau.edu4233 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAb Russellhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/ab-russell
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ab Russell is a Yoknapatawpha farmer, one of the few, Jason notes, who has plowed his cotton field by April 6, 1928. Jason walks across his field chasing his niece and the man in the red tie; after they let the air out of Jason's tire, Russell lends him a pump.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:55:44 +0000thagood@fau.edu4234 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduShow Musicianshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/show-musicians
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Readers never see the band that plays in the traveling show visiting Jefferson, but several of the novel's black characters talk about it, and in Jason's section both he and Uncle Job hear the music they are making. "That's a good band," Job says (248); "Dem folks sho do play dem horns" (230). Jason refers to the show's performers as "a bunch of Yankees" (230), but there's no clear evidence that they come from the North.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 11:57:41 +0000thagood@fau.edu4235 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduParson Walthallhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/parson-walthall
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The minister of the Methodist Church in Jefferson, Parson Walthall protests the slaughter of the town's pigeons to prevent them from fouling the town clock.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 12:01:06 +0000thagood@fau.edu4236 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMachttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mac
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mac is a baseball fan who is at the drugstore in Jefferson when Jason goes there to buy cigars. He has his money on the New York Yankees.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 12:03:06 +0000thagood@fau.edu4237 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBabe Ruthhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/babe-ruth
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr., played baseball for the New York Yankees from 1920-1934. He was the most famous athlete in the U.S. in 1928, and is still regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Jason Compson nevertheless does not think very highly of his skills.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 02 May 2014 12:05:49 +0000thagood@fau.edu4238 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCalvin Burden Ihttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/calvin-burden-i
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Tenth child of a Unitarian minister in New England, Calvin I hopes to teach his children "'to hate two things . . . hell and slaveholders'" (243). He loses one of his arms fighting against slavery as "a member of a troop of partisan guerilla horse" in 1861 (244). Then, during Reconstruction, he moves with his son to Yoknapatawpha with the goal of advocating for the rights of freedmen. There he is killed by Colonel John Sartoris, an event Faulkner had previously described in <em>Flags in the Dust</em> (and would describe again in <em>The Unvanquished</em>).</p></div></div></div>Sat, 10 May 2014 05:23:14 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4244 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduColonel John Sartorishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/colonel-john-sartoris-4
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An important patriarch in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fiction, Colonel Sartoris is the ex-slaveholder and Confederate soldier who kills Joanna Burden's grandfather Calvin Burden I and her brother Calvin Burden II on the Jefferson square in 1874 "over a question of negro votes in a state election" (47).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 May 2014 05:38:08 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4245 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCalvin Burden IIhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/calvin-burden-ii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is Joanna Burden's half-brother, "dark like [their] father's mother's people and like his mother" (248). He and his grandfather, Calvin Burden I, are murdered in the middle of Jefferson by Colonel Sartoris in 1874 "over a question of negro votes in a state election" (47).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 May 2014 05:50:42 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4246 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Beardhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-beard-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "comfortable woman, with red arms and untidy grayish hair," Mrs. Beard runs the boarding house in Jefferson where Byron Bunch lives (84).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 10 May 2014 05:55:27 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4247 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People of Frenchman's Bendhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-frenchmans-bend
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When the narrator first introduces the Old Frenchman's ruined mansion house, he identifies "the people of the neighborhood" around it as the ones who have been using its lumber for firewood and despoiling its grounds by digging for treasure (8).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 13 May 2014 18:45:22 +0000sfr4248 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Suitors of Little Bellehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-suitors-little-belle
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Horace refers to the various young men who have been calling on his step-daughter Little Belle as "Louis or Paul or Whoever" (13). Horace seems to believe there have been many such suitors, "alert and a little impatient," sharing the hammock in the grape arbor with her in ways he finds very disconcerting (13-14), but Horace's ideas about Belle's sexuality are hardly reliable.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 13 May 2014 19:17:56 +0000sfr4249 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bootlegger(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bootlegger1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man who drives the truck carrying the moonshine that Lee Goodwin makes from Frenchman's Bend to Memphis complains about having to wait for Horace, to whom he is giving a ride to Jefferson. "I got a woman waiting for me," he says (21).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 13 May 2014 20:07:49 +0000sfr4250 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bootlegger(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bootlegger2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The second man who rides in the truck that carries the moonshine that Lee Goodwin makes from Frenchman's Bend to Memphis literally rides "shotgun" - as the truck pulls away from the Frenchman's place, "the second man lays a shotgun along the back of the seat" (22). He teases the driver about his impatience to get back to his woman in the city.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 16 May 2014 14:32:05 +0000sfr4289 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Italian Girlhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-italian-girl
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnamed "secretive" little girl (126) who attaches herself to Quentin when they meet in the bakery is the child of immigrants from Italy, though it is possible that she herself was born in the U.S. Her brother, Julio, is clearly an immigrant. Quentin describes her complexion as "like a cup of milk dashed with coffee," implying she is not exactly "white" (125). She speaks English, but when she meets Quentin at the bakery, she does not tell him who she is or where she lives.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 21:39:09 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4383 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bakery Employee http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bakery-employee
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnamed female bakery employee waits on Quentin in Cambridge and is antagonistic to immigrants. According to Quentin, she looks "like a librarian" (125). She is very hostile to "them foreigners" in her neighborhood, and suspects that the little girl in her store may be shoplifting: "She'll hide it under her dress and a body'd never know it" (126).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 21:47:55 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4386 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Nursemaidshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-nursemaids
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to the narrative, "few of the townspeople" take any notice of the sign in front of Hightower's house (58), but "now and then" an "idle and illiterate" "negro nursemaid with her white charges would loiter" and spell out the letters on it (59).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:30:17 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4396 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Childrenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-children-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "town" of Jefferson plays a prominent and pervasive role in <em>Light in August</em>, but the only time the narrative refers to the town's children is when it describes the occasional "negro nursemaid" who would pass Hightower's "with her white charges" (59).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:36:06 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4398 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Townsmanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jefferson-townsman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In a strange anticipation of itself, the narrative introduces the "acquaintance" who lives "in the town" and who tells the "stranger" who has noticed the sign in front of Hightower's house a very abbreviated version of the story of Reverend Hightower, his wife, and his twenty-five years in Jefferson (59-60). Two pages later the part of the stranger new to Jefferson will be played by Byron Bunch and the same story will be told to him in greater detail by "them," a collective town-as-narrator (60-73).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:39:06 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4399 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Strangerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-stranger
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A hypothetical figure, offered by the narrator as an example of the type of person who might pay attention to the sign in front of Hightower's house, which over the years the townspeople have come to ignore, and then mention it to "some acquaintance in the town" (59).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:43:32 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4401 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Members of Hightower's Congregationhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-members-hightowers-congregation-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Old men and women, pillars of the church, are among the first to "astonished and dubious" about Reverend Hightower's obsessions (61). Others increasingly view his behavior and preaching with suspicion and gossip about him and his wife - though they also raise funds to pay for Mrs. Hightower's treatment in a sanatorium and cook meals for him during her absence. When his preaching becomes more incoherent after her death, they finally lock him out of the church - though they also raise funds to help him relocate in another town, and are disappointed when he stays.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:46:57 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4402 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Ladies in Hightower's Congregationhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-ladies-hightowers-congregation
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>They observe and talk about the conduct and behavior of other women. At church on Sundays, they talk quietly and nod "to arriving friends as they pass in the aisle" (366). When the Hightowers arrive, they watch and worry about Mrs. Hightower; they bring food to the Reverend when she goes to a sanitorium.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:53:14 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4405 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Relatives of Mrs. Hightowerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-relatives-mrs-hightower
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hightower's wife is the only child of "one of the ministers, the teachers" in the seminary he attends (479), but this icon represents the imaginary "family" that Hightower invents to explain his wife's periodical absences in Memphis. He tells the congregation she has gone to visit them "downstate somewhere" (63).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 22:55:56 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4406 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJefferson Woman in Memphishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jefferson-woman-memphis
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It is "a Jefferson woman shopping in Memphis" who sees Mrs. Hightower going into a hotel when she is supposed to be visiting her family in Mississippi (64). When this woman returns home, she tells others what she saw.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:09:31 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4408 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Church Superintendenthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-church-superintendent
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The superintendent orders the organist to play to distract the congregation from Mrs. Hightower's exit from the church service.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:23:47 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4411 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Carruthershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-carruthers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She was the organist in Hightower's church when he preached there, but has now "been dead for almost twenty years" (366).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:27:06 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4412 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Hightower's Loverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-hightowers-lover
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Drunk, he registers under a fictitious name as Mrs. Hightower's husband at the Memphis hotel. It's not clear what role he played in her death there, but the narrative says that "he was arrested" (67).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:40:03 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4415 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Memphis Policehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-memphis-police
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After Mrs. Hightower's death at the Memphis hotel, they arrest the drunken man in her room and find the pieces of paper on which she had written and torn up her "rightful name" (67).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:43:38 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4416 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Memphis Reportershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-memphis-reporters
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On the "Sunday morning" after Mrs. Hightower's scandalous death in the city, Hightower's church is beset by swarm of "Memphis reporters taking pictures" (67). They even "follow him into the church" (68).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:53:34 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4417 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Photographershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-photographers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Along with the "Memphis reporters taking pictures" who swarm around Hightower and his church the day after his wife's death (67), the narrative mentions "some photographers" who set up their cameras in front of the church (68), including one "cameraman" who catches Hightower grimacing behind his hymn book "as though he were smiling" (69). It's not clear if the "reporters taking pictures" and the "photographers" are two different sets of people.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2014 23:57:29 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4418 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Ministerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-minister
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The minister takes the hymn book from Hightower and conducts Mrs. Hightower's funeral.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:05:30 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4419 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Members of Other Churcheshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-members-other-churches
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>They come to see Hightower at church, after he refuses to resign, "out of curiosity for a time" (69).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:09:10 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4420 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Woman Cookhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-woman-cook
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hightower's cook, described as a "high brown," quits after Mrs. Hightower's suicide, when her presence as a woman in his house makes her and Reverend Hightower vulnerable to gossip and vigilante violence (72).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:27:09 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4422 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Townsmenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-jefferson-townsmen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This entry supplements the "Unnamed Jefferson Townspeople" entry. It is necessary because, in addition to the major role that the white population as an aggregate plays in <em>Light in August</em>, the narrative identifies a number of behaviors specifically with the town's population of white males.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:32:27 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4423 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Male Cookhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-male-cook
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the man Hightower hires to cook for him after the "masked men" scare off his woman cook (71); he quits after "some men, not masked either," take him out and whip him (72). Apparently the men think there is a perverse sexual relationship between HIghtower and both cooks, though there is no evidence of that in either case.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:46:40 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4425 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Husband(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-man-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He lives in a cabin "on the edge of town immediately behind" Hightower's house, and when his wife goes into labor he seeks help from Hightower (73). The narrative suggests that he is afraid to approach a white woman to ask for help: "Hightower knew that the man would walk all the way to town . . . instead of asking some white woman to telephone for him" (74).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:50:36 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4426 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Confederate Cavalrymen(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-confederate-cavalrymen1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The troop of Confederate cavalry under the command of General Van Dorn to which Hightower's grandfather belonged that rode into Jefferson and destroyed a Union supply depot, after which most of them rode away. This event that Hightower is obsessed with is adapted by Faulkner from an actual raid that occurred in 1862 in Holly Springs, a Mississippi town near Oxford/Jefferson.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 01:01:05 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4429 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men in Front of Storehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-front-store
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Two unnamed men sitting in front of a store who talk to Quentin during his attempt to find the home of the little girl he met in the bakery.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 14:04:51 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4432 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man at Livery Stablehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man-livery-stable
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed man tells Quentin that the marshal is not there, and that he doesn't recognize the little girl with Quentin: "Them furriners. I cant tell one from another" (130). But he does point Quentin toward the district where those foreigners live.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 14:08:26 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4433 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Post Office Employeehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-post-office-employee
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The unnamed post office clerk is literate and wears a frock coat. He does not dismiss the unnamed Italian girl as a foreigner.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 14:17:06 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4435 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Town Squirthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-town-squirt
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This unnamed man is someone whom Caddy has kissed, much to the dismay of Quentin.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 14:42:28 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4441 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boy(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boy2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The three boys whom Quentin encounters on the bridge he will jump from later are carrying fishing poles when they first appear. Later they go swimming, and are annoyed when Quentin comes along with the unnamed little girl to watch - they are swimming naked. And when Quentin is taken into custody by Anse, they join what Quentin calls the "procession" that ends at the Squire's (141). One of the boys is called "Kenny" by another one (122). Quentin thinks of them as "the first," "the second" and "the third" (117 etc.) and they can be distinguished from each other.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 21 May 2014 15:26:36 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu4447 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Customerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-customer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This man wears "a torn singlet strapped into overalls" and has come to the conjure woman for one of her spells, for which she wants to charge him a dollar (271).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 24 May 2014 17:04:11 +0000tmtowner@utdallas.edu4525 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMemphis Hotel Porterhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/memphis-hotel-porter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This porter works in the Gayoso Hotel.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 26 May 2014 19:42:33 +0000sfr4575 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Locksmithhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-locksmith
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This locksmith is called in to open the bathroom door that Popeye locked on the day of his birthday party.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 27 May 2014 20:27:59 +0000sfr4590 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Pensacola Servanthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-pensacola-servant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This servant works for the unnamed wealthy woman who befriends Popeye's mother.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 27 May 2014 20:34:23 +0000sfr4591 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSutpen's Nearest Neighborhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sutpens-nearest-neighbor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>All we know for sure about the person whom the story refers to as the "nearest neighbor" to Sutpen's plantation and store is that he has a wagon Wash can borrow.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 28 May 2014 19:37:53 +0000sfr4601 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Passerbyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-passerby
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A passerby, he can't answer Hightower's question about the column of smoke.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 29 May 2014 19:36:29 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4602 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBootleg Whiskey Buyershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bootleg-whiskey-buyers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joe Christmas and Joe Brown make enough money selling illegal whiskey in Jefferson to quit their jobs at the planing mill and buy a car. The narrative refers several times to the men who buy from them, but the closest it ever comes to individualizing these customers is when it says that the "young men and even boys" in town all know that they can purchase whiskey "from Brown almost on sight" (46).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 29 May 2014 19:44:11 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4603 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduDamuddyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/damuddy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Damuddy is the grandmother of the Compson children. Whether maternal or paternal is not specified, but Mrs. Compson's reaction to her death and Damuddy's association with Jason suggest that she is a Bascomb. Until Damuddy got "sick," for example, Jason apparently slept in her bed with her (26). The day of her death, in the summer of 1898, is the earliest scene in Benjy and Quentin's memories.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 30 May 2014 16:09:26 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu4607 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCaptain McLendonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/captain-mclendon
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>McLendon (a World War I veteran) and Mr. Maxey discuss what they hear Joe Brown (aka Lucas Burch) talking about at the barbershop before Christmas "run in and dragged him out" (87).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:53:07 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4634 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMr. Maxeyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mr-maxey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He and Captain McLendon discuss what they hear Joe Brown (aka Lucas Burch) talking about at the barbershop before Christmas "run in and dragged him out" (87).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:56:39 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4635 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boardershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boarders
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Byron lives at Mrs. Beard's boarding house, and refers to the other men who live there as men who come to Jefferson on business or to serve on a jury, or as he puts it, "every durn horsetrader or courtjury that passes through the hallway" (300). They talk about the fire at the Burden House.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:01:19 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4638 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduHamp Wallerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/hamp-waller
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Identified as a "countryman" - i.e. a farmer from the county of Yoknapatawpha not the town of Jefferson (90) - Hamp Waller is the first person on the scene of Joanna's murder. Riding to town in a wagon with his family, he finds Joe Brown in the burning house. He also finds Joanna Burden's body in the house and removes it.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:04:40 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4639 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Wallerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-waller
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. Waller reports the fire to the police after she and her husband discover the burning house and Joanna Burden's body.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:07:11 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4640 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNathaniel Burrington IIhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/nathaniel-burrington-ii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is Joanna Burden's nephew. When word of her death reaches him in New Hampshire, he offers a thousand dollar reward to find the murderer.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:09:40 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4641 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBuck Connerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buck-conner
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In Chapter 4 the "marshal" who works with Sheriff Kennedy at the scene of Joanna's murder is named Buck Conner (99, etc.). (The unnamed town "night marshal" who joins Percy Grimm's unit of peace keepers in Chapter 19 [456] may be the same man.)</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:13:44 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4644 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Financial Advisorshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-financial-advisors
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jason refers to the people whom he pays to advise him on his cotton speculations in several different ways: "some people who're right there on the ground" in New York (192), "those rich New York jews" (193), and so on. Included in this group, according to him, is "one of the biggest manipulators in New York" (192). His references say much more about his own anti-semitism than they do about Wall Street analysts.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:42:52 +0000grdenton@memphis.edu4661 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Hightowerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-hightower
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Unnamed, the daughter of the head of Reverend Hightower's seminary wants desperately to escape to the wider world and chooses the young Gail Hightower as her vehicle. She marries him, and schemes with him to effect his appointment to the pulpit in Jefferson. There, she tries to adjust to his neglect and inattention, but eventually begins looking for male companionship on secret trips to Memphis. She is found dead there after jumping from a hotel room registered to another man.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:46:06 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4798 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Car Passengerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-car-passenger
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This woman shrieks in a "shrill voice" when the car in which she is riding passes Joe Christmas standing nude at the side of the road near the Burden place (108).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:47:34 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4840 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNegro Youth in Jeffersonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/negro-youth-jefferson
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While walking along the street in Jefferson, this "negro youth" is so frightened by the "still and baleful" look on Christmas' face as he stares through the barbershop window at Brown that he carefully "edges away" from him (113).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:49:12 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4841 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negroes in Freedman Townhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negroes-freedman-town
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Though the Negroes in Freedman Town, the specifically black section of Jefferson, are described as "invisible" to Joe, as he walks past their cabins he is very conscious of the way they seem to enclose him, "like bodiless voices murmuring talking laughing in a language not his" (114). He is particularly conscious of the murmuring "bodiless fecundmellow voices of [the] negro women" there (115).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:51:45 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4842 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGroup of Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/group-negroes-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A group of five or six negroes encounter Christmas on his way back to the Burden Place. When they see him, they cross "to one side of the road, the voices ceasing" (117). One of them is named Jupe.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:54:33 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4844 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJupehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/jupe
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the men in the group of "five or six" Negroes who encounter Christmas at night on his way back to the Burden place is called "Jupe" (117). He identifies Christmas as "a white man" and in a voice that is neither "threatful" nor "servile" asks him who he is looking for (117).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:56:03 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4845 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Orphanshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-orphans
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The orphans "in identical and uniform blue denim" are significant figures in Christmas's memory of the childhood years he spent in the Memphis orphanage (119). According to Hines and the dietitian, at least some of these children call Joe "Nigger" (127).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:57:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4846 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMiss Atkinshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/miss-atkins
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The dietitian, "young, a little fullbodied, smooth, pink-and-white," believes the five-year-old Joe Christmas is "going to tell" of her sexual episode with the young intern (120, 124). She calls Joe a "little nigger bastard" and raises questions with the matron about his racial identity so that he will be removed from the orphanage before exposing her (122).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:00:22 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4847 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCharleyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/charley
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The young intern finds baby Joe on the doorstep of the orphanage and presents him to the women on the staff. It is his idea to call the baby "Christmas." He is still working there five years later, when Joe overhears him having sex with the dietitian.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:02:00 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4848 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEupheus (Doc) Hineshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/eupheus-doc-hines
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At one time a brakeman on the railroad and a foreman at a sawmill, he is a man "whom time, circumstance, something, had betrayed" (127). A belligerent and violent religious fanatic and white supremacist, he murders the man with whom his daughter tries to run away and lets his daughter die in childbirth as punishment for her "womansinning and bitchery." Later, he kidnaps the illegitimate baby and takes him to an orphanage, where he has gotten a job to watch in secret while waiting to see what God will do with the child.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:05:06 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4849 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Orphanage Matronhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-orphanage-matron
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The matron of the (segregated, all-white) orphanage in Memphis is "past fifty, flabby faced, with weak, kind, frustrated eyes" (133). When she hears that Joe Christmas is being called a Negro, she decides to place him with a family as quickly as possible. She seems to have the child's interests at heart, both in making sure Christmas doesn't have to go to the "colored" orphanage, and in keeping the rumors about his race from McEachern, the white man who adopts him.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:07:16 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4850 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Staff of Little Rock Orphanagehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-staff-little-rock-orphanage
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The staff at the orphanage in Little Rock call the police when Doc Hines tries to have Joe admitted.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:47:27 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4851 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Policemenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-policemen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These policemen, from Little Rock or Memphis or perhaps some from each, come and get Joe Christmas and Doc Hines from the Little Rock orphanage and escort Joe by train back to the Memphis orphanage.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:49:33 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4852 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduAlicehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/alice
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A girl of twelve, Alice mothers three-year-old Joe Christmas in the orphanage until she is adopted and leaves in the middle of the night. Hence, the narrative refers to the other girls who mother Joe in the orphanage as "occasional Alices" (166).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:51:30 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4853 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Orphanage Workershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-orphanage-workers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The women who work at the Memphis orphanage where Christmas lives include the ones who find him "on that doorstep that Christmas night" and so decide to give him the last name of "Christmas" (383-84). And five years later two young women clean and dress Joe Christmas before he leaves the orphanage with Simon McEachern.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:54:37 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4854 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSimon McEachernhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/simon-mceachern
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is more than forty years old when he adopts Joe Christmas from the Memphis orphanage and takes the five-year-old boy to his farm. The narrative describes him as "somehow rocklike, indomitable, not so much ungentle as ruthless" (143-44). His voice is that "of a man who demanded that he be listened to not so much with attention but in silence" (142). A Calvinist, he plans to "learn" Joe that "'the two abominations are sloth and idle thinking, the two virtues are work and the fear of God'" (144). He bullies his nameless wife and chastises her for lying on Joe's behalf.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:01:27 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4855 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. McEachernhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-mceachern
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mrs. McEachern is a small, timid woman, a "patient, beaten creature without sex demarcation," who looks fifteen years older than her husband and who has been hammered "into an attenuation of dumb hopes and frustrated desires now faint and pale as dead ashes" (147, 165). She tries without success or acknowledgement to provide what she thinks Joe wants and needs.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:20:23 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4857 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Four Boyshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-four-boys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These "boys in identical overalls, who live within a three mile radius" of the McEachern farm," are "fourteen and fifteen" years old when, with Joe, they arrange to have sex with a Negro girl in a deserted sawmill shed (156). When Joe's "turn" comes, however, and begins to beat her instead, the "other four" fight him to make him stop (157). Joe is presumably with the same "four or five" boys later in the novel when one of them describes menstruation (184).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:29:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4858 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Girlhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-girl-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is induced to have sex with a group of five white country boys in a deserted sawmill shed. When it is Joe's turn, he sees "something, prone, abject; in her eyes perhaps" (156), and his response is to beat her until the other boys restrain him.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:31:13 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4859 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBobbie Allenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/bobbie-allen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bobbie comes from a brothel in Memphis to the railroad town, where she works for Max and Mame by day as a waitress "in a small, dingy, back street restaurant" and by night as a prostitute. She responds to the romantic advances of 18-year old Joe Christmas, even though "she would never see thirty again" (172).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:33:32 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4860 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLawyer Whom McEachern Seeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lawyer-whom-mceachern-sees
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The lawyer McEachern visits in the town that is five miles from his farm to do "business" with has an office near the courthouse there (173).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:37:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4861 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Men in Max's Restauranthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-men-maxs-restaurant
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "clump of men" sitting in Max's restaurant the first time Christmas goes there are described as "not farmers and not townsmen either"; with "their tilted hats and their cigarettes and their odor of barbershops," they look like they "had just got off a train," "would be gone tomorrow," and do "not have any address" (178, 174).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:38:33 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4862 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMax Confreyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/max-confrey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Max maintains discipline in the small restaurant he runs and acts as pimp in the brothel he manages.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:39:49 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4863 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-boy-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A boyhood friend upsets Christmas when he tells him and the other boys who hunt and fish together on Saturday afternoons about sexual intercourse, female desire, and menstruation. He also arranges the meeting in the shed with the Negro girl.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:41:06 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4864 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man with Candyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man-candy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the man from whom Christmas buys a stale box of candy to give Bobbie.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:42:02 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4865 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "John"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-john
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "man" never quite appears in the narrative. One night, when Joe goes to Max's looking for Bobbie, he gets as far as her window and somehow "knows that there was a man in the room with her" (198). If he is there, the man must be one of her customers.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:42:55 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4866 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People at the Dancehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-dance
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The country people at what Bobbie calls "the clodhopper dance" (218) in the one room school house are described as "girls in stiff offcolors and mailorder stockings and heels" and "young men in illcut and boardlike garments" (206). Among this group are the two men who restrain Bobbie after Joe strikes McEachern down.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:46:21 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4868 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Two Men(3)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-two-men3
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At the country dance, these two men restrain Bobbie from physically attacking the fallen McEachern.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:51:33 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4869 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People of Memphis Junctionhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-memphis-junction
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first time we see Memphis Junction, the narrator says that the "whole air" of the town is "masculine, transient" (173). On Christmas' last trip the narrator describes "the small, random, new, terrible little houses in which people who came yesterday from nowhere and tomorrow will be gone wherenot" live (211). In between the narrative refers specifically to only a few of these people, including some salesmen and the lawyer McEachern consults.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:54:37 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4870 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man at Max'shttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-stranger2-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joe had "never seen" the "second man" who is at Max's house when he arrives there looking for Bobbie, but he is obviously a kind of partner in Max and Mame's prostitution racket. He certainly dresses the part of a gangster from this era: "His hat was tipped forward so that the shadow of the brim fell across his mouth" (214). He assists Max and Mame's hasty departure from town. He beats Joe into insensibility.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:55:47 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4871 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMame Confreyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mame-confrey
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A big, brass-haired woman, in the daytime she sits "like a carved lioness guarding a portal, presenting respectability like a shield," behind a cigar case near the front of the dingy restaurant where Christmas meets Bobbie (175). At night she is the madam of the small town brothel which she runs with her husband.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:45:42 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4873 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Neighbor of McEachernhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-neighbor-mceachern
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This "neighbor" pays Christmas two dollars for chopping wood (197).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:47:25 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4874 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Undercover Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-undercover-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the hypothetical characters in this novel. This "undercover man," elsewhere usually called a "revenuer," does not actually appear in Jefferson, he is fairly vividly conjured up in the imagination of "the town," which is "just waiting" for Brown to get arrested by such an agent after "opening up his raincoat" and offering to sell him a jar of whiskey (46). It is illegal to sell alcohol in Yoknapatawpha both before and after Prohibition. At the time this novel takes place, Prohibition made it illegal to sell alcohol anywhere in the U.S.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:08:09 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4875 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Worker's Fatherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-workers-father
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The father whom one of the workers at the planing mill calls his "pappy" transmits stories that reveal the townspeople's longstanding animosity toward the Burdens. According to his son, pappy said "folks said [the house they live in] ought to be burned, with a little human fat meat to start it good" (49).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:25:56 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4876 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Choir at Country Churchhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-choir-country-church
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The choir in a country church is led on Sundays by Byron Bunch.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:45:02 +0000chlester0@gmail.com4877 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNegro Washing Womenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/negro-washing-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These women are washing clothes in the creek that runs besides the golf course and the Compson place.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:24:47 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4906 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduFrony Gibsonhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/frony-gibson-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Frony Gibson is the daughter of Roskus and Dilsey, and the mother of Luster. In the novel's first section she appears as a child, living with her family in the cabin in the Compsons' back yard. She seems about the same age and Quentin and Caddy Compson, and is characterized by her no-nonsense attitude: when Caddy says that "white folks dont have funerals," she replies "Your grandmammy dead as any nigger can get, I reckon" (33). She appears in the fourth section as an adult, "a thin woman, with a flat, pleasant face" (289).</p></div></div></div>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:32:13 +0000jburgers@gc.cuny.edu4907 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Movie-Goershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-movie-goers-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When the narrative describes Christmas walking in Jefferson around 9 p.m. it says that if he'd taken the same route at 7 p.m. he "would have passed people, white and black, going toward the square and the picture show" (i.e. the movies, 114). While these "people" appear only in this oblique way, they deserve to be included in our database, both as a rare instance of people of both races doing the same thing, and as an indication of the role movies played in the life of the town.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:06:05 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5005 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed White Peoplehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-white-people
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Most of the time if Faulkner's narrative does not specify someone's race, they are white, and the majority of the characters in <em>Light in August</em> are white too. But this icon refers specifically to the people in Jefferson who live in the neighborhood next to Freedman Town, a black district. As Christmas walks in the evening "between the houses of [these] white people," looking at them playing cards on their porches or sitting on their lawns, his thoughts reveal that their privileged middle-class peace was "all [Christmas] wanted" (115).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:09:38 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5006 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Southern Prostitutes and Madamshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-southern-prostitutes-and-madams
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During his fifteen years on the road, Joe "beds" many prostitutes. In what the narrative calls "the (comparatively speaking) south," when he doesn't have money to pay for the sex, he tells them afterward that he is "a negro" and only risks a cursing from "the woman and the matron of the house" (224). This icon also represents the "other women, women bought for a price" whom he beds in Memphis during the last phase of his relationship with Joanna.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:12:12 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5007 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Johns in Southern Brothelshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-johns-southern-brothels
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This group represent the white customers of various unspecified brothels "in the (comparatively speaking) south" (225) who beat Christmas when, after "bedding" one of the prostitutes, he identifies himself as a Negro (224).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:13:14 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5008 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Wagon Drivers http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-wagon-drivers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In its summary description of the fifteen years Joe Christmas spends on "the street" (223), the narrative mentions all the rides that he begs on "country wagons" with the "driver of the wagon not knowing who or what the passenger was and not daring to ask" (224).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:26:21 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5012 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Northern Negro Womanhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-northern-negro-woman
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The woman, who resembles "an ebony carving," lives with Christmas as man and wife in Chicago or Detroit (225). Since she is the only Negro woman whom the narrative mentions Joe living with, it seems likely that she is the woman Joe is remembering when he thinks about the possibility that Joanna might reject him: "'No white woman ever did that. Only a nigger woman ever give me the air, turned me out' (236).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:32:21 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5014 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Northern Prostitutehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-northern-prostitute
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Having just had sex with a black patron before Joe's "turn," this prostitute responds with indifference when Christmas tells her "that he is a negro" (225). He beats her so badly that "at first they thought that the woman was dead" (225).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:35:31 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5015 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Northern Policemenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-northern-policemen
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In an unidentified northern city or town, these "two policemen" subdue Christmas after he nearly beats a prostitute to death (225).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:40:29 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5018 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Northern White Menhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-northern-white-men
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This icon represents the various "white men" whom Christmas tricks into "calling him a negro" so that he can fight them (225). The narrative locates him "in the north" at this time (225).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:41:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5019 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Boyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-boy-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Christmas first arrives in Yoknapatawha, he runs into this boy, "swinging a tin bucket," "barefoot," and wearing "faded, patched, scant overalls" (227, 228) He answers Christmas' questions by telling him "where Miz Burden stay at" and that "colored folks around here looks after her" (227). As he walks away, he sings a risque song.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:42:53 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5020 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed College Leadershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-college-leaders
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The officials of Negro schools and colleges in the South regularly correspond with Joanna Burden, from whom they seek and receive business, financial, and religious advice. Joanna assumes that any of them would admit Joe Christmas to school on her account.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:49:59 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5021 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Letter Writershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-letter-writers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joanna Burden conducts a steady and voluminous correspondence with "the presidents and faculties and trustees" and "young girl students and even alumnae" of various southern Negro schools and colleges. In her replies Joanna sends them "advice, business, financial and religions" and "advice personal and practical" (233).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:54:39 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5022 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduE. E. Peebleshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/e-e-peebles
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A lawyer in Memphis with an office on Beale Street, and a trustee of a Negro school, he conducts Joanna's business affairs. He is one of the few black professionals in the Yoknapatawpha fictions who is not a minister.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:57:33 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5023 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNegro College Teachers and Studentshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/negro-college-teachers-and-students
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joanna Burden leaves Jefferson several times a year, for "three and four days," during which visits the various "negro schools and colleges through the south" that she supports (233). There she meets with "the teachers and the students" (234).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:47:59 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5061 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed New Hampshire Burringtonshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-new-hampshire-burringtons
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to Joanna, many Burringtons still live in New Hampshire, although she has only seen these relatives "perhaps three times in her life" (241).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:00:56 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5065 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduEvangeline Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/evangeline-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is the daughter of a St. Louis, Missouri, family of Huguenot descent, the first wife of Calvin Burden I, and the mother of their four children.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:03:31 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5066 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNathaniel Burrington Ihttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/nathaniel-burrington-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first Nathaniel Burrington is the head of the ancestral line that leads to Joanna Burden. He is a Unitarian minister in New England who fathers ten children, the youngest of whom is Calvin, who changes his last name from Burrington to Burden.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:04:48 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5067 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNathaniel Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/nathaniel-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joanna Burden's father. He is the only son of Calvin Burden I and Evangeline. Like his father, he runs away from home as a teenager. In the far west he meets Juana, and they have a son, Calvin Burden II, born out of wedlock in 1854. With his father and son he moves to Jefferson in 1866, "to help with the freed negroes" (251).</p></div></div></div>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:07:09 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5068 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMan Killed by Calvin Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/man-killed-calvin-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is killed in St. Louis by Calvin Burden I in an argument about slavery.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:08:03 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5069 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGail Hightower Ihttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/gail-hightower-i
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although he was not a planter before the Civil War but a lawyer, Reverend Hightower's grandfather and namesake owned slaves. He was a "thorn in his [abolitionist] son's side" but fascinated his grandson, who took pride as a boy in his grandfather's military exploits during the Civil War (470). Alive he was a "hale, bluff, rednosed man with the moustache of a brigand chief" (471).</p></div></div></div>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 23:15:04 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5073 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduGeneral Granthttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/general-grant-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In time the commander-in-chief of the Union Army and then President of the U.S., Ulysses S. Grant was in the early 1860s in charge of the campaign against Mississippi, especially Vicksburg. Military supplies being stored in Jefferson as part of that campaign provoke the Confederate cavalry raid in which Hightower's grandfather dies (476).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 23:22:21 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5074 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduWatt Kennedyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/watt-kennedy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A "fat, comfortable man," the sheriff investigates the murder of Joanna Burden and pursues Joe Christmas (287).</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:46:08 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5076 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Delinquent Girls in Memphishttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-delinquent-girls-memphis
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "delinquent girls" who live in a Memphis institution do not appear in the novel, except as the recipients of charity from Reverend Hightower (58).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:00:25 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5098 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Truck Driverhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-truck-driver
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The driver brings the latest news from the fire at the Burden place to the planing mill.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:58:30 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5100 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Planing Mill Workershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-planing-mill-workers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As a group they observe and comment on the appearance and behavior of Joe Christmas and Joe Brown during and after the nearly three years that they work at the planing mill in Jefferson. On the Saturday Lena arrives in Jefferson, they see the smoke of the fire and joke about it.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:01:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5101 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBuck Turpinhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buck-turpin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Buck Turpin is probably a merchant or businessman in Jefferson. He owns the lot in which the "show" that performs in town over the Easter weekend sets up its tent, being paid $10 for that.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:26:20 +0000rlcoleman@usouthal.edu5127 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Northern Negroeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-northern-negroes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part of the time Christmas is on "the street which was to run for fifteen years" he spends in Chicago and Detroit, living and eating "with negroes" (225) as a Negro himself. He fights with any of the black men "who call him white" (225).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:49:28 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5179 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Man Who Finds Hightowerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-man-who-finds-hightower
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the "man" who finds Hightower in the woods about a mile from town, tied to a tree and beaten unconscious (72).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:43:16 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5183 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Woman in Laborhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-woman-labor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She and her husband live in a cabin "immediately behind" Hightower's house (73). In the middle of her labor she gets out of bed, and it is her "wailing" that brings Hightower to her aid (74). Her baby is already dead when he delivers it.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:10:26 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5186 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Jefferson Doctorhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-doctor-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Jefferson doctor who appears twice in the novel is not named. Some years before the events of the story, he arrives on the scene, a cabin near Hightower's house, after Hightower delivered the stillborn Negro baby; he is the same doctor whom Byron Bunch contacts when Lena goes into labor in the cabin on the Burden place, but again arrives too late, this time after Hightower has successfully delivered the baby.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:22:39 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5189 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduLem Bushhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/lem-bush
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the neighbor in Arkansas who takes Milly Hines to the circus in his wagon.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:10:33 +0000sfr5193 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Priestshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-priests
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Catholic priests at the monastery in California teach Calvin Burden I to read the bible in Spanish and to sign his name; Nathaniel mentions other priests in the country where he and Juana met (presumably Old Mexico).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:17:53 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5195 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBeck Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/beck-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is one of three daughters of Calvin Burden I and Evangeline. "Beck" is presumably short for Rebecca. Unlike their older brother Nathaniel, who is dark like their mother, all three daughters have blue eyes.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:43:27 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5196 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSarah Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sarah-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is one of three daughters of Calvin Burden I and Evangeline. Unlike their older brother Nathaniel, who is dark like their mother, all three daughters have blue eyes.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:53:15 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5197 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Messenger(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-messenger1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The "word-of-mouth messenger" brings news of Nathaniel from Colorado to the Burdens living at that time somewhere west of St. Louis (243).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:57:45 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5198 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Messenger(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-messenger2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In 1863 this second "word-of-mouth messenger" brings news of Nathaniel Burden from Old Mexico to the Burdens living somewhere west of St. Louis. The messenger is "going east to Indianny for a spell" (245), so presumably that is where he is from.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:00:44 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5199 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduVangie Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/vangie-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>She is one of three daughters of Calvin Burden I and Evangeline. "Vangie" is presumably a nickname for "Evangeline." Unlike their older brother Nathaniel, who is dark like their mother, all three daughters have blue eyes.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:06:51 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5200 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Folks in Mexicohttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-folks-mexico
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>These "folks" appear in the novel only at second hand, when the man who tells Nathaniel Burden's family in Missouri about him mentions the trouble he got into in Mexico for killing a man who called him a horse thief. According to the messenger, "folks claim it wasn't the Mexican's horse noways," because, they say, the Mexican "never owned no horse" (244). It's not made clear whether these "folks" are Mexicans too, or among the "Easterners" who have recently come west (244).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:08:32 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5201 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Mexican Manhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-mexican-man
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is killed by Nathaniel Burden, after claiming that Nathaniel stole his horse. The messenger who reports this event to Nathaniel's family says that "Folks claim the Mexican never owned no horse" (244).</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:10:20 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5202 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed "Spanish" Authoritieshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-spanish-authorities
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The messenger who tells Nathaniel Burden’s family about the "trouble" he got into in Mexico refers to the Mexicans as "them Spanish" and alludes to their animus against “white men” (244). He obviously thinks of Hispanic/Spanish as non-white, but in our database Hispanic and Spanish are both identified as white.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:11:57 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5203 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJuana Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/juana-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Juana is the Hispanic wife of Nathaniel Burden and the mother of Calvin Burden II. Born in Mexico, willing to wait a dozen years to get married and legitimize her child, she comes to Jefferson with her husband and father-in-law in 1866. She dies not long after her son is killed by Colonel Sartoris, though in her account of her family Joanna does not mention the cause of death. Joanna is named after her.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:27:50 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5204 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Texas Deputyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-texas-deputy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This lawman appears in the narrative of Nathaniel Burden's adventures on the frontier before the Civil War. He is "treed in a dance hall" in Texas (247).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:29:14 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5205 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Texas Rangershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-texas-rangers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of Nathaniel Burden's adventures in the west involves "helping some Rangers" clean up "some kind of a mess" with "some folks" and a deputy who is "treed in a dance hall" (247). The law enforcement group commonly referred to as the "Texas Rangers" has been in existence since well before Texas became a state in 1845.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:33:36 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5208 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Santa Fe Ministerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-santa-fe-minister
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This minister's brief visit to Sante Fe inspires Nathaniel Burden to move there for a few years with Juana and their son, hoping he will return and marry them.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:34:46 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5209 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduJoanna Burden's Motherhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/joanna-burdens-mother
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Joanna Burden talks about Nathaniel Burden's first wife, Juana, in much more detail than she provides about her own mother, who is not given a first name. All we know about her is that she moves to Jefferson, after Nathaniel Burden writes a cousin in New Hampshire, seeking a wife who is "a good housekeeper and . . . at least thirtyfive years old" (250). She and Nathaniel marry "two days after" she arrives in town, and "two years later" Joanna, their only child, is born (252).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:35:51 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5210 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Cousin of Nathaniel Burdenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-cousin-nathaniel-burden
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Presumably his name is Burrington, but all narrative says is that he finds a woman in New Hampshire willing to move to Jefferson and marry his cousin Nathaniel Burden.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:39:21 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5212 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Wedding Guestshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-wedding-guests
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Nathaniel and Juana get married in Kansas, Joanna tells Christmas, "everybody they could get word to or that heard about it, came" (250).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:40:33 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5213 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Saloon Keeperhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-saloon-keeper
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to Joanna's story, when her father married his first wife, Juana, this saloon keeper lent some mosquito netting to Nathaniel's sisters to use for making a wedding veil.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:42:20 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5214 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Memphis Prostituteshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-memphis-prostitutes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the last year of his relationship with Joanna, Joe goes "every week or so" to Memphis, "where he betrays her with other women, women bought for a price" (263).</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:22:09 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5224 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Countryboy in Carhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-countryboy-car
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When this "countryboy" driving past the Burden place with his girlfriend sees Joe Christmas, naked and waving a pistol, he stops and allows him into the car (297). He has the presence of mind to plan to carry Joe to his own house, while pretending to be taking a shortcut.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:27:46 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5228 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Girl Car Passengerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-girl-car-passenger
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the two people with "young faces" who stop and let Joe Christmas into their car when they see him standing beside the road, naked and carrying Joanna's pistol (283). She reacts to him with terror.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:28:49 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5229 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduResidents of Doane's Millhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/residents-doanes-mill
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doane's Mill has a transient population of men and women. A few of them, including Lucas Burch, are "young bachelors" (6), but there are also "perhaps five families" living there and working "in the mill or for it" when Lena comes to live with McKinley and his family (4). One of these people is the "foreman" who serves as Lucas Burch's pretext for abandoning Lena Grove in Doane's Mill; another may be this foreman's "cousin," or he may be a figment of Burch's imagination (19).</p></div></div></div>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:51:25 +0000sfr5230 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduCrowd at Burden Placehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/crowd-burden-place
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although the white people of Yoknapatawpha had avoided the Burden place for decades before the story begins, within minutes after her corpse is discovered in the burning house a huge crowd gathers there. It is comprised mostly of white men (who, the narrator pointedly says, "would not have allowed their wives" to call on Joanna while she lived there, 291-92), although the crowd includes "the women" too (289).</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:03:35 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5259 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Firemenhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-firemen-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Yoknapatawpha is served by a volunteer fire department, made up of "men and youths" who "desert counters and desks" in town drive the "fire truck" out to Joanna Burden's (288). When they get there, the lack of nearby water turns them, "including the one who ground the siren," into part of the crowd of spectators (288).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:08:19 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5261 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBufordhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/buford
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He discovers "traces of recent occupation" in the cabin beyond Joanna's house (290) and "reckons" that if there is anyone living in the cabin beyond Joanna's house it would be Negroes.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:26:47 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5267 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Man(1)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-man1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Sheriff Kennedy learns that someone lives in the cabin behind Joanna Burden's house, he decides the most efficient way to find the facts is to order his deputy Buford to "Get me a nigger" (291). The narrator says next: "The deputy and two or three others got him a nigger" (291). At first the man pleads ignorance but then, after being whipped by the deputy, says "It's two white man" who have been living there (293). He does not protest his treatment.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:56:22 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5269 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Bank Cashierhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-bank-cashier-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The cashier of the bank brings the sheriff an envelope deposited at the bank by Joanna Burden to be opened upon her death.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:24:28 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5274 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduSheriff's Possehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/sheriffs-posse
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In his hunt for Joe Christmas across the Yoknapatawpha countryside Sheriff Kennedy is joined by a large posse. There are "thirty or forty" men waiting for the bloodhounds who arrive on the train the day after Joanna's body is discovered (296), and the narrative suggests this same group remains on the trail through the following week.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:27:54 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5275 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Prisonershttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-prisoners
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>They occupy the jail with Lucas Burch (aka Joe Brown).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:55:01 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5280 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Passerbyhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-passerby
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Hightower walks home after learning that the Sheriff is closing in on Christmas, he is so shaken that when "someone speaks to him in passing," he "does not even know" that he has been addressed (310). The passerby is not identified by gender or race.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:04:46 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5285 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNegro Woman Near Burden Placehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/negro-woman-near-burden-place
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This woman is mentioned by Byron, who tells Hightower that there is "a nigger woman, old enough to be sensible, that dont live over two hundred yards away" from the cabin on the Burden place where he has moved Lena (314). He says she can help Lena when she goes into labor.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:24:51 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5295 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduBrother Bedenberryhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/brother-bedenberry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He is preaching when Joe enters the church and tries "to snatch him outen the pulpit" (323).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:35:37 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5297 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Messengerhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-messenger
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The narrator identifies the black man who rides to the Sheriff's house in Jefferson "on a saddleless mule" to report Christmas' violent disruption of the "revival meeting" at "the negro church" only as "the messenger" (322, 323). He is anxious to convince the Sheriff that the blacks had not been "bothering" Christmas beforehand (324).</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:39:40 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5299 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Woman on Mourner's Benchhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-woman-mourners-bench
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When Christmas disrupts the revival meeting in the black church, this woman, "already in a semihysterical state" from the service, calls him "the devil!" and "Satan himself!" before running straight at him (322). He knocks her down.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:44:13 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5301 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Husband(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-husband2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He loses his shoes when his wife swaps "her husband's brogans which she was wearing at the time" for the shoes Joe Christmas is wearing (329).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:54:56 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5357 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Member of the Possehttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-member-posse
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When the men chasing Christmas are led by the dogs to the Negro woman "wearing a pair of man's shoes," one "member of the posse" identifies the shoes as the fugitive's (329).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:55:54 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5358 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduNegro Woman wearing Christmas' Shoeshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/negro-woman-wearing-christmas-shoes
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This is the woman whom the dogs lead the posse to, by following the scent of the shoes she got from Joe Christmas in return for "a pair of her husband's brogans" (329). She lives with her family in a cabin next to a corn field, and when the armed posse kicks open the door she drops the iron skillet she was holding.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:04:32 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5360 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro Wagon Driver(2)http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-wagon-driver2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A youth from "two counties back yonder," and so presumably not aware of either Joanna's murder or the manhunt for Christmas, he offers Joe a ride to Mottstown (339).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:34:47 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5362 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negro "Pappy"http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negro-pappy
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The man who gives Christmas a ride into Mottstown ("Unnamed Negro Wagon Driver(2)") tells him that he is going there to buy "a yellin calf" that "pappy bought" (339).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:36:23 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5363 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduMrs. Hineshttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/mrs-hines
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"A dumpy, fat little woman with a round face like dirty and unovened dough, and a tight screw of scant hair" (346). Early on, Mrs. Hines is a much less vivid character than her dominating husband, whose religious fanaticism seems to control them both. Later, after she realizes that Joe Christmas is the grandson whom her husband had taken from her, she takes charge of her husband, manages to visit Joe, and seeks assistance on Joe's behalf.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:38:00 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5364 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed Negroes in Mottstownhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-negroes-mottstown
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the thirty years that the Hineses live in Mottstown, they depend largely on the charity of the Negroes who live in their neighborhood, despite Doc's racist sermons and overall belligerence. In particular the narrative mentions "the negro women" of Mottstown, who bring dishes of food, possibly from the white kitchens where they cook, to the Hineses at their house (341).</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:45:59 +0000chlester0@gmail.com5365 at http://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.eduUnnamed People in Mottstownhttp://faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/content/unnamed-people-mottstown
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the first "five or six years&